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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Democritus
Democritus
Democritus
Died: 370 BC

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Greed, Talking, Listen, Want

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Aristotle, Diogenes, Epictetus, Epicurus, Heraclitus, Plato, Plutarch, Socrates
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