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Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be content to take their own and depart.
Socrates thought that if all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap, whence every one must take an equal portion, most persons would be content to take their own and depart.
Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- Plutarch
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- Approximate author period: c. 83 AD · classical
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 342; printed byline: Plutarch; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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