Concealment will gain neither honor nor justice

Where men conceal their ways one from another in darkness rather than light, there no man will ever rightly gain either his due honor or office, or the justice that is befitting. Plato. Laws. Book 5. Page 738.

Hades abducting Persephone, fresco in the small royal tomb at the archaeological site of Aigai, Vergina, Macedonia, Greece 340 BCE. Photographed by Yann Forget and provided by Wikimedia Commons.


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