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Quotation from Critias by Plato
“to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power”
Critias, Stephanus 121b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Outward splendour hides moral decline from everyone except those who can see what happiness really is.
Citation: "to those who had no eye to see the true happiness, they appeared glorious and blessed at the very time when they were full of avarice and unrighteous power" — Plato, Critias, Stephanus 121b, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-critias-q9)
