# De Inventione 2.9

Cicero, De Inventione, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi036.perseus-lat2, Book 2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/de-inventione/2.9

quodsi ea, quae in his libris exponuntur, tanto opere eligenda fuerunt, quanto studio electa sunt, profecto neque nos neque alios industriae nostrae paenitebit. sin autem temere aliquid alicuius praeterisse aut non satis eleganter secuti videbimur, docti ab aliquo facile et libenter sententiam commutabimus. non enim parum cognosse, sed in parum cognito stulte et diu perseverasse turpe est, propterea quod alterum communi hominum infirmitati,

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Cicero, De Inventione, ed. Eduard Stroebel. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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