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“Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws."”
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- Source:
- Aristotle. xi.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 89b956bb91140a6fffa12216f6c20d4ecdd5a42ba8bda858565584371656e0bb
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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