[535e]
in precisely the same way the soul that hates the
voluntary lie and is troubled by it in its own self and greatly angered by it in
others, but cheerfully accepts the involuntary falsehood1 and is not distressed when convicted of
lack of knowledge, but wallows in the mud of ignorance as insensitively as a
pig.2”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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