Profecto beati erimus, cum corporibus
relictis et cupiditatum et
aemulationum erimus expertes; quodque nunc facimus, cum laxati curis
sumus, ut spectare aliquid velimus et visere, id multo tum faciemus
liberius totosque nos in contemplandis rebus perspiciendisque ponemus,
propterea quod et natura inest in mentibus nostris insatiabilis quaedam
cupiditas veri videndi.
Cicero, Tusconalane Disputationes, I,44
"We shall certainly be happy when, being emancipated from that body, we
at the same time get rid of these desires and this rivalry. And that
which we do at present, when, dismissing all other cares, we curiously
examine and look into anything, we shall then do with greater freedom;
and we shall employ ourselves entirely in the contemplation and
examination of things; because there is naturally in our minds a certain
insatiable desire to know the truth"
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