Dialogue

 1  Gorg|          Plato, as well as of other great artists. We may hardly admit
 2  Gorg|           which is simplicity. Most great works receive a new light
 3  Gorg|          certain cases pleasures as great as those of the good, or
 4  Gorg|         must enlighten him upon the great subject of shams or flatteries.
 5  Gorg|    rhetoricians, like despots, have great power. Socrates denies that
 6  Gorg|             to them. Gorgias is the great rhetorician, now advanced
 7  Gorg|             that rhetoric exercises great influence over other men,
 8  Gorg|            that might is right. His great motive of action is political
 9  Gorg|         human character is a man of great passions and great powers,
10  Gorg|           man of great passions and great powers, which he has developed
11  Gorg|      themselves carried away by the great tide of public opinion.
12  Gorg|        Protag.). Callicles exhibits great ability in defending himself
13  Gorg|        staying. There they find the great rhetorician and his younger
14  Gorg|          answered by him to his own great satisfaction, and with a
15  Gorg|      Socrates?), but he thinks that great want of manners is shown
16  Gorg|        studies brevity. Polus is in great indignation at not being
17  Gorg|            all. ‘Why, have they not great power, and can they not
18  Gorg|           cannot pronounce even the great king to be happy, unless
19  Gorg|           of Pericles, or any other great family— this is the kind
20  Gorg| conventional level. But sometimes a great man will rise up and reassert
21  Gorg|           Cimon, Miltiades, and the great Pericles were still alive.
22  Gorg|         potentate, perhaps even the great king himself, appears before
23  Gorg|            is anything to prevent a great man from being a good one,
24  Gorg|             himself, and with other great teachers, and we may note
25  Gorg|           endeavour to draw out the great lessons which he teaches
26  Gorg|          Phaedo and Republic, a few great criminals, chiefly tyrants,
27  Gorg|         study of the tempers of the Great Beast, which he describes
28  Gorg|         crimes are committed on the great scale—the crimes of tyrants,
29  Gorg|         later to all, and is not so great an evil as an unworthy life,
30  Gorg|           loose from them, requires great force of mind; he hardly
31  Gorg|             take an interest in the great questions which surround
32  Gorg|          for the fulfilment of many great purposes. He knows, too,
33  Gorg|      statesman is well aware that a great purpose carried out consistently
34  Gorg|             for political life; his great ideas are not understood
35  Gorg|             seem to fall apart. The great art of novel writing, that
36  Gorg|             strongest. Instead of a great and nobly-executed subject,
37  Gorg|             monster (Republic): the great beast, i.e. the populace:
38  Gorg|             Inferno is reserved for great criminals only. The argument
39  Gorg|       Ardiaeus, are features of the great allegory which have an indescribable
40  Gorg|          the animals. There were no great estates, or families, or
41  Gorg|            a region between them. A great writer knows how to strike
42  Gorg|      Gorgias, like myself, have had great experience of disputations,
43  Gorg|            of being cured of a very great evil than of curing another.
44  Gorg|           which a man can endure so great as an erroneous opinion
45  Gorg|            argument may run on to a great length. And therefore I
46  Gorg|         Socrates, and is not this a great comfort?—not to have learned
47  Gorg|            Gorgias, there will be a great deal of discussion, before
48  Gorg|             truth is, that there is great want of manners in bringing
49  Gorg|        regarded? Have they not very great power in states?~SOCRATES:
50  Gorg|            POLUS: And is not that a great power?~SOCRATES: Polus has
51  Gorg|        assert.~SOCRATES: No, by the great—what do you call him?—not
52  Gorg|             and would you call this great power?~POLUS: I should not.~
53  Gorg|    rhetoricians or the tyrants have great power in states, unless
54  Gorg|      suppose not.~SOCRATES: Then if great power is a good as you allow,
55  Gorg|         allow, will such a one have great power in a state?~POLUS:
56  Gorg|            in a state, and not have great power, and not do what he
57  Gorg|           in an instant. Such is my great power in this city. And
58  Gorg|             of way any one may have great power—he may burn any house
59  Gorg|          doing as you think best is great power?~POLUS: Certainly
60  Gorg|             more, my good sir, that great power is a benefit to a
61  Gorg|         that this is the meaning of great power; and if not, then
62  Gorg|           not even know whether the great king was a happy man?~SOCRATES:
63  Gorg|          false witnesses who have a great air of respectability. And
64  Gorg|           of Pericles, or any other great Athenian family whom you
65  Gorg|             having had all sorts of great injuries inflicted on him,
66  Gorg|     SOCRATES: And if the cutting be great or deep or such as will
67  Gorg|         patient is delivered from a great evil; and this is the advantage
68  Gorg|        happy, because he was a very great criminal and unpunished:
69  Gorg|          this is true, where is the great use of rhetoric? If we admit
70  Gorg|          for he will thereby suffer great evil?~POLUS: True.~SOCRATES:
71  Gorg|            never aspire to anything great or noble. But if I see him
72  Gorg|            Why, their modesty is so great that they are driven to
73  Gorg|            imply when you said that great cities attack small ones
74  Gorg|       stronger; and I will ask you, great Sir, to be a little milder
75  Gorg|             only obtain them with a great deal of toil and difficulty;
76  Gorg|             been initiated into the great mysteries before you were
77  Gorg|            to ask how he may become great and formidable, this would
78  Gorg|          say, the end of becoming a great man and not suffering injury?~
79  Gorg|             and I have heard that a great many times from you and
80  Gorg|     swimming; is that an art of any great pretensions?~CALLICLES:
81  Gorg|            he asks in return for so great a boon; and he who is the
82  Gorg|             man who is afflicted by great and incurable bodily diseases
83  Gorg|      drowning, much less he who has great and incurable diseases,
84  Gorg|             you the art of becoming great in the city, and yet not
85  Gorg|             they have made the city great, not seeing that the swollen
86  Gorg|           be accessories to them. A great piece of work is always
87  Gorg|             observe that there is a great uproar and indignation at
88  Gorg|           not appear to you to be a great inconsistency in saying
89  Gorg|           either perfectly, or in a great measure and for a certain
90  Gorg|            hands on the soul of the great king, or of some other king
91  Gorg|             are, for where there is great power to do wrong, to live
92  Gorg|        Lysimachus. But, in general, great men are also bad, my friend.~
93  Gorg|            also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat