“How much education may reconcile young people to pain and sufference, the examples of Sparta do sufficiently shew; and they who have once brought themselves not to think bodily pain the greatest of evils, or that which they ought to stand most in fear of, have made no small advance toward virtue.”

— John Locke, book Some Thoughts Concerning Education

Sec. 115
Some Thoughts Concerning Education (1693)

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