Cum parvas aedes sibi fundasset Socrates (cuius non fugio mortem si famam adsequar, et cedo invidiae dummodo absolvar cinis), ex populo sic nescioquis, ut fieri solet: Quaeso, tam angustam talis vir ponis domum? Vtinam inquit veris hanc amicis impleam!
When Socrates had laid the foundations of a small house for himself'incidentally, I do not refuse to die that mans death if only I may achieve his fame, and, like him, I will submit to malice if my dust may be vindicated'one or other of the people, in the course of conversation usual on such occasions, remarked: What, so small a house for so great a man? I only wish, he replied, that I could fill it with real friends.
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