Dialogue

 1  Gorg|       sometimes we are inclined to think, with one of the dramatis
 2  Gorg|         dialogue; in this way they think that they have escaped all
 3  Gorg|          that bad men do what they think best, but not what they
 4  Gorg|            which he is inclined to think may arise out of a misapprehension
 5  Gorg|         and they only do what they think best, and never what they
 6  Gorg|       Macedonia. Does not Socrates think him happy?—Socrates would
 7  Gorg|         saying what other men only think. According to his view,
 8  Gorg|      disregard length of life, and think only how you can live best,
 9  Gorg|           fate may be. ‘And do you think that a man who is unable
10  Gorg|        manner of evil.~Perhaps you think that this is an old wives’
11  Gorg|          scarcely any one dares to think for himself: most of us
12  Gorg|            his powers are failing, think of that other ‘city of which
13  Gorg|        make trial of me too, for I think that Gorgias, who has been
14  Gorg|     CHAEREPHON: And do you, Polus, think that you can answer better
15  Gorg|       GORGIAS: Yes, Socrates, I do think myself good at that.~SOCRATES:
16  Gorg|            rhetoric.’ But I do not think that you really call arithmetic
17  Gorg|         multitude.~SOCRATES: Now I think, Gorgias, that you have
18  Gorg|           the question?~GORGIAS: I think so.~SOCRATES: Then, if you
19  Gorg|        your hypothesis.~GORGIAS: I think that you are quite right,
20  Gorg|             You must have heard, I think, that the docks and the
21  Gorg|          you must have observed, I think, that they do not always
22  Gorg|            to you, lest you should think that I have some animosity
23  Gorg|            length. And therefore I think that we should consider
24  Gorg|           error into which you may think that I have fallen-upon
25  Gorg|          please?~SOCRATES: Only to think, my friend, that having
26  Gorg|         question: Whether I do not think rhetoric a fine thing? But
27  Gorg|           the geometricians (for I think that by this time you will
28  Gorg|         discourse at length. But I think that I may be excused, because
29  Gorg|           What do you mean? do you think that rhetoric is flattery?~
30  Gorg|           SOCRATES: Then, if so, I think that they have the least
31  Gorg|           will, but only what they think best.~POLUS: And is not
32  Gorg|      rhetoricians who do what they think best in states, and the
33  Gorg|          said that they do as they think best?~SOCRATES: And I say
34  Gorg|       POLUS: But they do what they think best?~SOCRATES: Aye.~POLUS:
35  Gorg|          his goods, because, as we think, it will conduce to our
36  Gorg|        they are.~POLUS: And so you think that he who slays any one
37  Gorg|           of him: but neither do I think that he is to be envied.~
38  Gorg|          become a tyrant; for if I think that any of these men whom
39  Gorg|        that this mere doing as you think best is great power?~POLUS:
40  Gorg|           he is.~POLUS: And do you think that he is happy or miserable?~
41  Gorg|           not; for you surely must think as I do.~SOCRATES: Not so,
42  Gorg|            For there the one party think that they refute the other
43  Gorg|      asking you whether you do not think that a man who is unjust
44  Gorg|          be happy, seeing that you think Archelaus unjust, and yet
45  Gorg|         him.~POLUS: But do you not think, Socrates, that you have
46  Gorg|          sort of proof which, as I think, is required; for I shall
47  Gorg|         the proof? For I certainly think that I and you and every
48  Gorg|         pleasant or both?~POLUS: I think not.~SOCRATES: And may not
49  Gorg|            POLUS: Yes, Socrates, I think that they are.~SOCRATES:
50  Gorg|           healed pleased?~POLUS: I think not.~SOCRATES: A useful
51  Gorg|            at you deservedly, as I think; but now he has himself
52  Gorg|       SOCRATES: I will tell you; I think that I have found in you
53  Gorg|             Shall I tell you why I think so? I know that you, Callicles,
54  Gorg|            in the way; do the many think, or do they not think thus?—
55  Gorg|         many think, or do they not think thus?—I must beg of you
56  Gorg|       meant; for you surely do not think that two men are better
57  Gorg|         own ruler; but perhaps you think that there is no necessity
58  Gorg|         what the rest of the world think, but do not like to say.
59  Gorg|          awful thing; and indeed I think that Euripides may have
60  Gorg|       light, which could hardly, I think, have been considered by
61  Gorg|        They are much upon a par, I think, in that respect.~SOCRATES:
62  Gorg|           with me, and whether you think that I spoke the truth when
63  Gorg|          notion. But if any of you think that I arrive at conclusions
64  Gorg|           be completed; but if you think otherwise let us leave off
65  Gorg|            go our ways.~GORGIAS: I think, Socrates, that we should
66  Gorg|            among gods and men; you think that you ought to cultivate
67  Gorg|             Callicles, whether you think that Polus and I were right
68  Gorg|           you agree with me; for I think that such an art is the
69  Gorg|          you talk sense.~SOCRATES: Think and tell me whether you
70  Gorg|         the argument shows: do you think that all our cares should
71  Gorg|            friend, but what do you think of swimming; is that an
72  Gorg|       state; whereas I want you to think and see whether this is
73  Gorg|    Callicles, what an absurdity to think that we or any human being
74  Gorg|            to know in what way you think that affairs should be administered
75  Gorg|          and ask whether you still think that they were good citizens.~
76  Gorg|            profession.—What do you think?~CALLICLES: I should think
77  Gorg|         think?~CALLICLES: I should think not.~SOCRATES: Well, but
78  Gorg| serving-men of the State; and I do think that they were certainly
79  Gorg|      vileness of the city: —do you think that there is any difference
80  Gorg|      sophists, as I am inclined to think, are the only class who
81  Gorg|          come to harm! you seem to think that you are living in another
82  Gorg|          By all means.~SOCRATES: I think that I am the only or almost
83  Gorg|          me.~CALLICLES: And do you think, Socrates, that a man who
84  Gorg|        crimes, as I am inclined to think, was not in his power, and