An idea from Lives of the Eminent Philosophers

Socrates liked to look over everything for sale in the market and say to himself, “How many things are there which I do not want.” He turned down money and land from rich friends and kings.

From Lives of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

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