Socrates Quotes

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

Socrates

• Good
• Evil
• Prefer
• Freed
• Refute

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• I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

  

  Socrates
  • Good
  • Evil
  • Prefer