The Wise and Ingenious Companion, French and English; / or, A Collection of the Wit of the Illustrious Persons, Both Ancient and Modern

by Abel Boyer

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Some of Socrates his Friends, expressing their Anger against one whom he had saluted, and had not return’d him his Civility: Why should you be angry, said Socrates to them, because that Man is not so civil as my self?

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Des Amis de Socrate temoignant être irritez de ce que quelqu’un qu’il avoit salüé ne lui avoit pas rendu son salut: Pourquoi se fâcher, leur dit Socrate, de ce que cét homme n’est pas si civil que moy?