“Often when he was looking on at auctions he would say, "How many things there are which I do not need!"”

— Diogenes Laërtius

Socrates, 10.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers

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