How many things I can do without! — Socrates
How many things I can do without!
In the original Greek
πόσων ἐγὼ χρείαν οὐκ ἔχω.
Quoted in The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, by Diogenes Laertius · 399 BC
★ 4.9On looking at a multitude of goods exposed for sale.
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Socrates. Quoted in The Lives of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laërtius, translated by Pamela Mensch, edited by James Miller. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 2, ch. 5.
Original citation
Socrates. Quoted in Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, written by Diogenes Laertius. c. 240 AD, bk. 2, ch. 5.
