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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate. — Democritus

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

Democritus
415 BC
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Topic
Value of educationEducation
Statement type
Metaphor, analogy and simile
Time
415 BCClassical antiquity
Person
Democritus
Provenance
Current citation
Democritus. Quoted in Ancilla to Pre-Socratic Philosophers, written and translated by Kathleen Freeman. Harvard University Press, 1983.
Original citation
Democritus. Tetralogies of Thrasyllus. c. 420 BC, Fr. 180.

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