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“And when you see a man who is repining at the approach of death, is not his reluctance a sufficient proof that he is not a lover of wisdom, but a lover of the body, and probably at the same time a lover of either money or power, or both?”

— Socrates

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Socrates. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Socrates. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Socrates

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