3 Plato Quotes on Deception

Plato quotes on deception

3. Then the case is the same in all the other arts for the orator and his rhetoric; there is no need to know the truth of the actual matters, but one merely needs to have discovered some device of persuasion which will make one appear to those who do not know to know better than those who know.

25. The gods are not magicians who transform themselves; neither do they deceive mankind in any way.

34. Everything that deceives may be said to enchant.