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“He that knows not what the world is, knows not where he is himself. He that knows not for what he was made, knows not what he is nor what the world is.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. viii. 52.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 4d82de08076b3bc8390147f895131ead7e860669285265e752938974a8a92536
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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