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“There are two sentences inscribed upon the Delphic oracle, hugely accommodated to the usages of man's life: "Know thyself," and "Nothing too much;" and upon these all other precepts depend.”
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- Source:
- Consolation to Apollonius.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ea41580fbf8ed2e2c969923df8e86beec79eea839c511d24ba382358eb7348ca
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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