Dialogue

  1  Gorg|       whether these new lights are true or only suggestive, will
  2  Gorg|            flattery is opposed the true and noble art of life which
  3  Gorg|         ideas of the dialogue. The true and the false in individuals
  4  Gorg|       conceived under the forms of true and false art. In the development
  5  Gorg|           class of flatterers. The true and false finally appear
  6  Gorg|            for if these things are true, then, as he says with real
  7  Gorg|            he makes a speech, but, true to his character, not until
  8  Gorg|         that he is ignorant of the true nature and bearing of these
  9  Gorg|        that he is himself the only true politician of his age. In
 10  Gorg|            and knowledge is always true, but belief may be either
 11  Gorg|           but belief may be either true or false,—there is therefore
 12  Gorg|           justice.~And this is the true scheme of them, but when
 13  Gorg|          for they never attain the true object of desire, which
 14  Gorg|          For if such doctrines are true, life must have been turned
 15  Gorg|             is ever the same, ever true. Callicles must refute her,
 16  Gorg|         expresses what I mean. For true pleasure is a perpetual
 17  Gorg|         replies, that this is only true of some of them; others
 18  Gorg|            that none of these were true artists, setting before
 19  Gorg|         disorder. The good man and true orator has a settled design,
 20  Gorg|         and if self-control is the true secret of happiness, then
 21  Gorg|     happiness, then the paradox is true that the only use of rhetoric
 22  Gorg|       bonds. I myself know not the true nature of these things,
 23  Gorg|        only person who teaches the true art of politics. And very
 24  Gorg|          Callicles, if he have the true self- help, which is never
 25  Gorg|            about another world are true, he will insist that something
 26  Gorg|           something of the kind is true, and will frame his life
 27  Gorg|            place in antagonism the true and false life, and to contrast
 28  Gorg|           arts are the parodies of true arts and sciences. All that
 29  Gorg|          right of the one wise and true man to dissent from the
 30  Gorg|           unpunished’— this is the true retaliation. (Compare the
 31  Gorg|      public opinion; but he can be true and innocent, simple and
 32  Gorg|          much for them.~Who is the true and who the false statesman?—~
 33  Gorg|          the false statesman?—~The true statesman is he who brings
 34  Gorg|        their obedient servant. The true politician, if he would
 35  Gorg|        politician asks not what is true, but what is the opinion
 36  Gorg|        justice at their hands.~The true statesman is aware that
 37  Gorg|             but partly also from a true sense of the faults of eminent
 38  Gorg|          According to Socrates the true governor will find ruin
 39  Gorg|              Herein is that saying true, One soweth and another
 40  Gorg|        Compare Thucyd.)~Who is the true poet?~Plato expels the poets
 41  Gorg|            of his readers?~Yet the true office of a poet or writer
 42  Gorg|        with the world around them. True poetry is the remembrance
 43  Gorg|            But he is not without a true sense of the noble purposes
 44  Gorg|          He has no conception that true art should bring order out
 45  Gorg|          matter:’ Art then must be true, and politics must be true,
 46  Gorg|         true, and politics must be true, and the life of man must
 47  Gorg|            the life of man must be true and not a seeming or sham.
 48  Gorg|           are never insisted on as true; it is only affirmed that
 49  Gorg|            the body?~GORGIAS: Very true.~SOCRATES: And the same,
 50  Gorg|          And the same, Gorgias, is true of the other arts:—all of
 51  Gorg|          medium of words?~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES: Words which do
 52  Gorg|            other figures?~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES: But if there
 53  Gorg|          about what.~GORGIAS: Very true.~SOCRATES: Then rhetoric
 54  Gorg|            of persuasion?~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES: Seeing, then,
 55  Gorg|          false belief as well as a true?’—you would reply, if I
 56  Gorg|       false knowledge as well as a true?~GORGIAS: No.~SOCRATES:
 57  Gorg|       belief differ.~GORGIAS: Very true.~SOCRATES: And yet those
 58  Gorg|   instruction about them?~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES: And the rhetorician
 59  Gorg|          say anything which is not true, and very willing to refute
 60  Gorg|          else who says what is not true, and quite as ready to be
 61  Gorg|          persuasion.~GORGIAS: Very true.~SOCRATES: But if he is
 62  Gorg|         injustice at all?~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES: And at the very
 63  Gorg|           in good health.~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES: And this applies
 64  Gorg|       beauty to the neglect of the true beauty which is given by
 65  Gorg|            is not this universally true? If a man does something
 66  Gorg|            we do them?~POLUS: Most true.~SOCRATES: Then we do not
 67  Gorg|       utility or both?~POLUS: Very true.~SOCRATES: And of two deformed
 68  Gorg|            to say, in evil?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: Then doing injustice
 69  Gorg|            to be more evil?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: And would you
 70  Gorg|       violently or quickly?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: And the suffering
 71  Gorg|         what is honourable?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: And if what is
 72  Gorg|            is good?~POLUS: That is true.~SOCRATES: Then he is benefited?~
 73  Gorg|           disease, poverty?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: And which of
 74  Gorg|           of medicine?~POLUS: Very true.~SOCRATES: And what from
 75  Gorg|            having had them.~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: And suppose the
 76  Gorg|       evils, which is vice?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: And justice punishes
 77  Gorg|       medicine of our vice?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: He, then, has
 78  Gorg|        delivered from vice?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: That is to say,
 79  Gorg|          Compare Republic.)~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: May not their
 80  Gorg|    released from this evil?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: And not to suffer,
 81  Gorg|    greatest of all?~POLUS: That is true.~SOCRATES: Well, and was
 82  Gorg|           it has been proved to be true?~POLUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
 83  Gorg|        Well, Polus, but if this is true, where is the great use
 84  Gorg|          suffer great evil?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: And if he, or
 85  Gorg|       earnest, and what you say is true, is not the whole of human
 86  Gorg|           but philosophy is always true. She is the teacher at whose
 87  Gorg|          and superior. And this is true, as you may ascertain, if
 88  Gorg|           thus praise himself. The true principle is to unite them.
 89  Gorg|          superior?~CALLICLES: Very true.~SOCRATES: Then they are
 90  Gorg|         that the wise and good and true husbandman should actually
 91  Gorg|         you to persevere, that the true rule of human life may become
 92  Gorg|          the good; for, if this be true, then the disagreeable consequences
 93  Gorg|           consequence: Is not this true?~CALLICLES: It is.~SOCRATES:
 94  Gorg|            same moment?~CALLICLES: True.~SOCRATES: And if he is
 95  Gorg|            moment?~CALLICLES: Very true.~SOCRATES: Then he ceases
 96  Gorg|       SOCRATES: And is this notion true of one soul, or of two or
 97  Gorg|           more?~CALLICLES: Equally true of two or more.~SOCRATES:
 98  Gorg|           have no regard for their true interests?~CALLICLES: Yes.~
 99  Gorg|      SOCRATES: And is not the same true of all similar arts, as,
100  Gorg|         flattery?~CALLICLES: Quite true.~SOCRATES: Well now, suppose
101  Gorg|            of rhetoric?~CALLICLES: True.~SOCRATES: And do not the
102  Gorg|         flattery.~CALLICLES: Quite true.~SOCRATES: Very good. And
103  Gorg|          if, as you said at first, true virtue consists only in
104  Gorg|      systematic whole; and this is true of all artists, and in the
105  Gorg|          SOCRATES: And the same is true of a ship?~CALLICLES: Yes.~
106  Gorg|         bodily excellence: is that true or not?~CALLICLES: True.~
107  Gorg|            true or not?~CALLICLES: True.~SOCRATES: And ‘lawful’
108  Gorg|         SOCRATES: And will not the true rhetorician who is honest
109  Gorg|     rightly estimated. Is not that true?~CALLICLES: I will not say
110  Gorg|           ambition to know what is true and what is false in this
111  Gorg| intemperate, is the bad soul. Very true.~And will not the temperate
112  Gorg|        must be just and holy? Very true. And must he not be courageous?
113  Gorg|        these things I affirm to be true. And if they are true, then
114  Gorg|           be true. And if they are true, then I further affirm that
115  Gorg|         all those consequences are true. And that which you thought
116  Gorg|            admit out of modesty is true, viz., that, to do injustice,
117  Gorg|          has also turned out to be true.~And now, these things being
118  Gorg|         and if what I am saying is true, and injustice is the greatest
119  Gorg|            him.~CALLICLES: That is true.~SOCRATES: Neither will
120  Gorg|           CALLICLES: That again is true.~SOCRATES: Then the only
121  Gorg|            injury?~CALLICLES: Very true.~SOCRATES: But will he also
122  Gorg|           not the very opposite be true,—if he is to be like the
123  Gorg|            be punished?~CALLICLES: True.~SOCRATES: And by the imitation
124  Gorg|         man will kill the good and true.~CALLICLES: And is not that
125  Gorg|            would deserve to be the true natural friend of the Athenian
126  Gorg|           we drew?~CALLICLES: Very true.~SOCRATES: And the one which
127  Gorg|          or soul?~CALLICLES: Quite true.~SOCRATES: And must we not
128  Gorg|   necessary, Callicles?~CALLICLES: True.~SOCRATES: In the second
129  Gorg|        undertake them. Is not this true?~CALLICLES: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
130  Gorg|          foolish thing?~CALLICLES: True.~SOCRATES: And now, my friend,
131  Gorg|           unjust?~CALLICLES: Quite true.~SOCRATES: And are not just
132  Gorg|         you admitted that this was true of our present statesmen,
133  Gorg|         present statesmen, but not true of former ones, and you
134  Gorg| rhetoricians, they did not use the true art of rhetoric or of flattery,
135  Gorg|          and medicine which is the true minister of the body, and
136  Gorg|           that all this is equally true of the soul, you seem at
137  Gorg|         injustice.~CALLICLES: Very true.~SOCRATES: And he who removes
138  Gorg|          dishonourable?~CALLICLES: True.~SOCRATES: And why? Because
139  Gorg|             otherwise not. Is this true?~CALLICLES: It is.~SOCRATES:
140  Gorg|           living who practises the true art of politics; I am the
141  Gorg|          which, as I believe, is a true tale, for I mean to speak
142  Gorg|       imagine that this is equally true of the soul, Callicles;
143  Gorg|      attain to this. Such good and true men, however, there have
144  Gorg|          you are a really good and true man. When we have practised