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
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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