Plato quote about magic from The Republic - The gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they deceive mankind in any way.
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The gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they deceive mankind in any way.
 Plato, The Republic. copy citation

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Author Plato
Source The Republic
Topic magic gods mankind
Date
Language English
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Note Translated by Benjamin Jowett
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1497/1497-h/1497-h.htm

Context

“Then is God perfectly simple and true both in word and deed; he changes not; he deceives not, either by sign or word, by dream or waking vision.
Your thoughts, he said, are the reflection of my own.
You agree with me then, I said, that this is the second type or form in which we should write and speak about divine things. The gods are not magicians who transform themselves, neither do they deceive mankind in any way.
I grant that.
Then, although we are admirers of Homer, we do not admire the lying dream which Zeus sends to Agamemnon; neither will we praise the verses of Aeschylus in which Thetis says that Apollo at her nuptials” source

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