Those who want fewest things are nearest to the Gods.
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SocratesQuoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, II
About Socrates
Athenian philosopher known to us mainly through the dialogues of Plato. (c. 470-399 BC)
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- The unexamined life is not worth living for men.Plato, Apology 38a, tr. G. M. A. Grube
- It would be better for me that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.Plato, Gorgias 482c
- Anyone who holds a true opinion without understanding is like a blind man on the right road.Plato, Republic 506c
- There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.Plato, Phaedo 89d
- How many things I have no need of!Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, II
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