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No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

Plato
Blessing, Men, Evil
Plato (2002). “Plato: Five Dialogues: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo”, p.33, Hackett Publishing

Ignorance: the root of all evil.

Plato
Ignorance, Roots, Evil

Discordance is evil. Harmony is virtue.

Plato
Evil, Virtue, Harmony

Lord of Lords, grant us the good whether we pray for it or not, but evil keep from us, even though we pray for it.

Plato
Evil, Praying, Lord

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all.

Plato
Philosophical, Ignorance, Evil
Plato (2016). “The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.2726, e-artnow (Open Publishing)

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.

Plato
Cutting, Men, Evil
Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.98, Cosimo, Inc.

Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting.

Plato
Wings, Long, Evil
Plato (2015). “Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias”, p.902, e-artnow

There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil.

Plato
Evil, Rewards
Plato (2012). “The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues”, p.60, Courier Corporation

Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils.

Plato
Jobs, Class, Evil
Plato, Henry Desmond Pritchard Lee (1987). “The Republic”

For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright.

Plato
Men, Evil, Religion
Plato (1934). “The Laws of Plato”

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