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Date: c. 387 B.C.
"And so some clever fellow, a Sicilian perhaps or Italian, writing in allegory, by a slight perversion of language named this part of the soul a jar, because it can be swayed and easily persuaded, and the foolish he called the uninitiate, and that part of the soul in foolish people where the desi...
preview | full record— Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
Date: c. 387 B.C.
"And by the sieve, my informant told me, he means the soul, and the soul of the foolish he compared to a sieve, because it is perforated through lack of belief and forgetfulness is unable to hold anything."
preview | full record— Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
