The soul can have no escape of security from evil except by becoming as good and wise as it possibly can. For it takes nothing with it to the next world except its education and training...
— Socrates Ancient

Father of Western philosophy

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Plato, Phaedo, discussing the afterlife

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c. 380 BCE

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