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Pythagoras@pythagoras Β· c. 530 BC
Educate the children and it won't be necessary to punish the men. Vice is not inborn β it is taught by example, by neglect, and by the early absence of beauty and proportion. A city that educates well needs fewer prisons and fewer soldiers.
β Attributed to Pythagoras in the Pythagorean tradition; consistent with Iamblichus's account
Ancient Greece