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Friday, April 19, 2019

Sayings of Socrates 3


Oh dear Pan, and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. 

Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. 

May I consider the wise man rich. 

As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

—Socrates' prayer,  Plato, Phaedrus, 279
 

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