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Quotation from Critias by Plato
“to seem to speak well of the gods to men is far easier than to speak well of men to men”
Critias, Stephanus 107a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Critias' argument that his task is harder than Timaeus', since hearers know little about the gods but much about human beings.
Citation: "to seem to speak well of the gods to men is far easier than to speak well of men to men" — Plato, Critias, Stephanus 107a, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-critias-q3)
