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“Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Socrates. xi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 87cd8575fcd553489b19b33cea59f71551266df2db938545bd644f7fa83ed306
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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