Dialogue

  1  Gorg|           man has done evil he had better be punished than unpunished;
  2  Gorg|        that which makes the people better, and that which only flatters
  3  Gorg|            the abstract notions of better, superior, stronger, he
  4  Gorg|         but he must first become a better and wiser man, for he as
  5  Gorg|           have taught the citizens better than to put him to death?~
  6  Gorg|    unjustly is to be pitied; it is better to suffer than to do injustice.
  7  Gorg|          question: Is a guilty man better off when he is punished
  8  Gorg|          of the stronger or of the better?’ ‘There is no difference.’
  9  Gorg|           the opinions of the many better? And their opinion is that
 10  Gorg|           that the superior is the better?’ But what do you mean by
 11  Gorg|            what do you mean by the better? Tell me that, and please
 12  Gorg|         the life of contentment is better than the life of indulgence.
 13  Gorg|           the brave or may be even better.~Callicles endeavours now
 14  Gorg|          is good for the soul, and better than the unrestrained indulgence
 15  Gorg|            soul which has order is better than the soul which is without
 16  Gorg|      examine him? Whom has he made better? For we have already admitted
 17  Gorg|   Themistocles. Whom did they make better? Nay, did not Pericles make
 18  Gorg|    statesman of a past age were no better than those of our own. They
 19  Gorg|           not have taught the city better! He surely cannot blame
 20  Gorg|            in Hellas, have nothing better to say, and no one will
 21  Gorg|            ever show that to do is better than to suffer evil. A man
 22  Gorg|            such a sentiment in the better part of human nature.~The
 23  Gorg|            and that ‘they were the better for being punished.’ Still
 24  Gorg|          the New Testament—~‘It is better to suffer for well doing
 25  Gorg|          us.~Second Thesis:—~It is better to suffer for wrong doing
 26  Gorg|           to be unfortunate—he had better have suffered when he was
 27  Gorg|           the struggle between the better and the worse is going on
 28  Gorg|        almost all desire to appear better than they are, that they
 29  Gorg|          of the nation. There is a better (as well as a worse) public
 30  Gorg|           the well-being of states—better administration, better education,
 31  Gorg|      states—better administration, better education, the reconciliation
 32  Gorg|         expect their leaders to be better and wiser than themselves:
 33  Gorg|            who have been taught no better, have done what might be
 34  Gorg|      feeling that they ought to be better governed than they are.
 35  Gorg|           more unscrupulous man is better esteemed than the more conscientious,
 36  Gorg|      heaven. He expresses what the better part of us would fain say,
 37  Gorg|          own nature, and make them better acquainted with the world
 38  Gorg|            for the human race by a better use of the poetical and
 39  Gorg|        many ideals of social life, better than a thousand sermons?
 40  Gorg|           Italian writer, have the better of him. Though we are not
 41  Gorg|    represented the relation of the better part of the world, and of
 42  Gorg|          whether to live or die is better for them (Gor.): (13) the
 43  Gorg|         only affirmed that nothing better can be said about a future
 44  Gorg|       Judgment; and ‘there is some better thing remaining for the
 45  Gorg|          think that you can answer better than Gorgias?~POLUS: What
 46  Gorg|         dare say I shall soon know better; please to answer me a question:—
 47  Gorg|          rhetoricians, I cannot do better than learn the nature of
 48  Gorg|         can persuade the multitude better than any other man of anything
 49  Gorg| discoursing all day I shall be the better pleased.~SOCRATES: I may
 50  Gorg|          under the idea that it is better to walk, and when we stand
 51  Gorg|            was saying, you have no better argument than numbers, let
 52  Gorg|            a slave, who indeed had better die than live; since when
 53  Gorg|            who are able to get the better of them, in order that they
 54  Gorg|          that they may not get the better of them; and they say, that
 55  Gorg|            that it is just for the better to have more than the worse,
 56  Gorg|        inferior by force; that the better should rule the worse, the
 57  Gorg|             And do you mean by the better the same as the superior?
 58  Gorg|          superior and stronger and better were the same; or whether
 59  Gorg|           the same; or whether the better may be also the inferior
 60  Gorg|     superior the worse, or whether better is to be defined in the
 61  Gorg|           up. Are the superior and better and stronger the same or
 62  Gorg|           they are the laws of the better; for the superior class
 63  Gorg|         the superior class are far better, as you were saying?~CALLICLES:
 64  Gorg|            that by superior I mean better: do you imagine me to say,
 65  Gorg|         not think that two men are better than one, or that your slaves
 66  Gorg|            or that your slaves are better than you because they are
 67  Gorg|         again, and tell me who the better are, if they are not the
 68  Gorg|        then, whom you mean, by the better?~CALLICLES: I mean the more
 69  Gorg|            whether you mean by the better and superior the wiser,
 70  Gorg|           natural justice—that the better and wiser should rule and
 71  Gorg|          not, being wiser, be also better than we are, and our superior
 72  Gorg|          and drinks, because he is better, or he will have the distribution
 73  Gorg|        admit that the wiser is the better? Answer ‘Yes’ or ‘No.’~CALLICLES:
 74  Gorg|        SOCRATES: And ought not the better to have a larger share?~
 75  Gorg|         time you were defining the better and the superior to be the
 76  Gorg|       notion; the superior and the better are now declared by you
 77  Gorg|          whom you affirm to be the better and superior, and in what
 78  Gorg|     superior, and in what they are better?~CALLICLES: I have already
 79  Gorg|         SOCRATES: And are they not better pleased at the enemy’s departure?~
 80  Gorg|            good, or, perhaps, even better?—is not this a further inference
 81  Gorg|    pleasure, and know nothing of a better and worse, and there are
 82  Gorg|         former. But perhaps we had better first try to distinguish
 83  Gorg|       considering whether they are better or worse for this?~CALLICLES:
 84  Gorg|           them worse and made them better, from the day that he began
 85  Gorg|           of some desires makes us better, and of others, worse, and
 86  Gorg|             Such treatment will be better for the soul herself?~CALLICLES:
 87  Gorg|       restraint or chastisement is better for the soul than intemperance
 88  Gorg|            has an order of her own better than that which has no order?
 89  Gorg|        legs will carry him: he had better order his life so as not
 90  Gorg|           embarked, and not a whit better either in their bodies or
 91  Gorg|       reflects that such a one had better not live, for he cannot
 92  Gorg|           that you will say, ‘I am better, and better born.’ But if
 93  Gorg|        will say, ‘I am better, and better born.’ But if the better
 94  Gorg|           better born.’ But if the better is not what I say, and virtue
 95  Gorg|           of the city, whether for better or worse, then I can only
 96  Gorg|       woman, had ever been any the better for the medical skill of
 97  Gorg|         making any of the citizens better? Was there ever a man who
 98  Gorg|        must have made the citizens better instead of worse?~CALLICLES:
 99  Gorg|         supposed to have been made better by Pericles, or, on the
100  Gorg|      horses, and themselves become better charioteers, are thrown
101  Gorg|           have turned out to be no better than our present ones; and
102  Gorg|            who are living now, and better able to gratify the wishes
103  Gorg|          you may understand me the better. The purveyor of the articles
104  Gorg|          saying that they make men better, then they are the only
105  Gorg|    punished ought either to become better and profit by it, or he
106  Gorg|       suffers, and fear and become better. Those who are improved
107  Gorg|            could find out anything better or truer: but now you see
108  Gorg|        good to us, for we shall be better able to judge then. In our