You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.
Plato, Richard Stanley Bluck (1955). “Phaedo: Translated, with Introd., Notes, and Appendices”

You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls.