The Republic · Rep. 507c

But have you remarked that sight is by far the most costly and complex piece of workmanship which the artificer of the senses ever contrived?

Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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