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False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Plato
Truth, Attitude, Lying
Plato (2011). “The Final Days of Socrates: Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo”, p.136, Cosimo, Inc.

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood let alone believed by the masses.

Plato
Lying, Thinking, Shadow

The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self.

Plato
Self Esteem, Lying, Pride
Plato (1984). “Laws”

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Plato
Lying, Eye, Beholder

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

Plato
Lying, Stones, Wells
Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.415

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Plato
Lying, Home, May
Plato (1873). “The Dialogues of Plato”, p.211

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Plato
Lying, Philosophical, Liberty

Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them.

Plato
Plato, Lying, Men
Plato (1977). “The Portable Plato”, p.223, Penguin

The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth.... He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one ... Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful No indeed.

Plato
Life, Lying, Mean

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.

Plato
Lying, Ignorance, Doe

To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

Plato
Plato, Lying, Enemy
Plato (1866). “The Republic of Plato, tr. with an analysis and notes, by J.L. Davies and D.J. Vaughan”, p.80

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