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Quotation from Critias by Plato

“All that is said by any of us can only be imitation and representation”

Plato (spoken by Critias)

Critias, Stephanus 107b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)

Critias' general principle about speech, introducing his comparison with painters of landscapes and of human figures.

Citation: "All that is said by any of us can only be imitation and representation" — Plato, Critias, Stephanus 107b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-critias-q2)

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