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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.
         

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.


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This page presents the quote "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.". Author of this quote is Socrates. This quote is about greater good, oneself, programming, evil,.