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“At the end of his life, Rousseau acknowledged that it was not nearly so easy as he had assumed to follow the Delphic oracle’s injunction to ‘Know thyself.’ He concluded ruefully that it was ‘arrogant and rash’ to profess virtues that you cannot live up to, and retreated into indolent seclusion.”
— James Miller, Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche,Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011 cited in Philosophy as Inspiration. The consolations of understanding, The Economist, 27 Jan 2011
