Plato Quotes

[I]t's Necessary To Exert Very Great Foresight Every Time You Go To Blame Or Praise A Man, So That You Won't Speak Incorrectly ... For You Shouldn't Suppose That, While Stones Are Sacred And Pieces Of Wood, And Birds, And Snakes, Human Beings Are Not. Rather Of All These Things, The Most Sacred Is The Good Human Being, While The Most Polluted Is The Wicked.
Speech Attributed To Socrates In Plato, Minos 319a, Trans. Thomas L. Pangle, In The Roots Of Political Philosophy: Ten Forgotten Socratic Dialogues, Ed. Thomas L. Pangle (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987), 63.

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