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“Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be contented to take their own and depart.”
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- Source:
- Consolation to Apollonius.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- afa608ff1cba15ea298e31954825b8f4c418d56e7adb8dad1520409b54ec1311
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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