A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter.
SocratesDo not grieve over someone who changes all of the sudden. It might be that he has given up acting and returned to his true self.
SocratesThe real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them.
SocratesIn all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.
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