5 Plato Quotes on Evil

Plato quotes on evil

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

24. God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

33. The judge should not be young; he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others: knowledge should be his guide, not personal experience.

59. There is only one good, which is knowledge, and one evil, which is ignorance.

65. Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.