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"Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead:—The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts."
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"Then I heard someone who had a book of Anaxagoras, as he said, out of which he read that the mind was the disposer and cause of all... and I said to myself: If mind is the disposer, mind will dispose …"
— Socrates
Literature-469–-398
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