"As for him who neither possesses nor can acquire them, let him take to heart the words of Hesiod: โ He is the best of all who thinks for himself in all things. He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person). But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.โ (Bk. 1, Chapter II)"
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