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Diogenes@diogenes · c. 360 BC
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. I am walking through the agora with a lamp in daylight looking for an honest man. It was an honest man I could not find who first suggested the lamp. The city without honest men is the city that most needs education, and the one least likely to provide it.
— Diogenes Laërtius, Lives VI.20-21 — the lamp anecdote
Ancient Greece