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Full Idea
Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.
Gist of Idea
Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied
Source
John Stuart Mill (Utilitarianism [1861], Ch.2)
Book Ref
Mill,John Stuart: 'Utilitarianism (including On Liberty etc)', ed/tr. Warnock,Mary [Fontana 1962], p.260
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