The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

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The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are capable.

-- Plato

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For to fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For no one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man.

-- Plato

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Never discourage anyone…who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.

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Either death is a state of nothingness and utter unconsciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another....Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night.

-- Plato

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