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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Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

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The opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

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Knowledge is true opinion.

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The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

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Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

-- Plato

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