Dialogue

 1  Gorg|             like despots, have great power. Socrates denies that they
 2  Gorg|              that they have any real power, and hence arise the three
 3  Gorg|              he is fascinated by the power of rhetoric, and dazzled
 4  Gorg|              materialist, a lover of power and also of pleasure, and
 5  Gorg|      certainly shows that he has the power, in the words of Gorgias,
 6  Gorg|              men, and to individuals power in the state, is the greatest
 7  Gorg|              has exercised a similar power over the patients of his
 8  Gorg|         multitude of anything by the power of his rhetoric; not that
 9  Gorg|      rhetorician ought to abuse this power any more than a boxer should
10  Gorg|             Why, have they not great power, and can they not do whatever
11  Gorg|           they desire?’ They have no power, and they only do what they
12  Gorg|            the possessor of despotic power, who can imprison, exile,
13  Gorg|             a house on fire, is real power. To this Polus assents,
14  Gorg|             if he is a king, and has power, how base would he be in
15  Gorg|             has never discovered the power of geometrical proportion
16  Gorg|        themselves, have not the same power of doing injustice. Sisyphus
17  Gorg| self-condemnation; and in the mighty power of geometrical equality
18  Gorg|              has ‘the least possible power’ while seeming to have the
19  Gorg|            thoughts are fixed not on power or riches or extension of
20  Gorg|        exaggerate nor undervalue the power of a statesman, neither
21  Gorg|          have become an irresistible power. ‘Herein is that saying
22  Gorg|          them with beauty, and has a power of making them enter into
23  Gorg|          Zeus has taken from men the power of foreseeing death, and
24  Gorg|           indescribable grandeur and power. The remark already made
25  Gorg|       applied to any subject, have a power of their own. They are a
26  Gorg|         represented. The majesty and power of the whole passage—especially
27  Gorg|         words for their efficacy and power: and I take your meaning
28  Gorg|               and to individuals the power of ruling over others in
29  Gorg|             meeting?—if you have the power of uttering this word, you
30  Gorg|           going to ask— what is this power of persuasion which is given
31  Gorg|          than any one would have the power of getting himself chosen,
32  Gorg|               Such is the nature and power of the art of rhetoric!
33  Gorg|            merely because he has the power; he ought to use rhetoric
34  Gorg|            But if he is to have more power of persuasion than the physician,
35  Gorg|      physician, he will have greater power than he who knows?~GORGIAS:
36  Gorg|           you would reveal to me the power of rhetoric, as you were
37  Gorg|            should be deprived of the power of speech—that would be
38  Gorg|             Have they not very great power in states?~SOCRATES: Not
39  Gorg|              if you mean to say that power is a good to the possessor.~
40  Gorg|             that they have the least power of all the citizens.~POLUS:
41  Gorg|              have the least possible power in states, as I was just
42  Gorg|              And is not that a great power?~SOCRATES: Polus has already
43  Gorg|            not you, for you say that power is a good to him who has
44  Gorg|              good to him who has the power.~POLUS: I do.~SOCRATES:
45  Gorg|            would you call this great power?~POLUS: I should not.~SOCRATES:
46  Gorg|           themselves, if as you say, power be indeed a good, admitting
47  Gorg|            or the tyrants have great power in states, unless Polus
48  Gorg|              SOCRATES: Then if great power is a good as you allow,
49  Gorg|           will such a one have great power in a state?~POLUS: He will
50  Gorg|            state, and not have great power, and not do what he wills?~
51  Gorg|           would not like to have the power of doing what seemed good
52  Gorg|          mean, as I said before, the power of doing whatever seems
53  Gorg|              have just acquired rare power, and become a tyrant; for
54  Gorg|            instant. Such is my great power in this city. And if you
55  Gorg|           way any one may have great power—he may burn any house which
56  Gorg|              you think best is great power?~POLUS: Certainly not such
57  Gorg|             you disapprove of such a power?~POLUS: I can.~SOCRATES:
58  Gorg|              my good sir, that great power is a benefit to a man if
59  Gorg|              is the meaning of great power; and if not, then his power
60  Gorg|          power; and if not, then his power is an evil and is no power.
61  Gorg|           power is an evil and is no power. But let us look at the
62  Gorg|     Pyrilampes. For you have not the power to resist the words and
63  Gorg|              is helpless, and has no power to save either himself or
64  Gorg|         danger, and that I am in the power of another like an outlaw
65  Gorg|          injustice? must he have the power, or only the will to obtain
66  Gorg|            provided himself with the power?~CALLICLES: He must have
67  Gorg|            provided himself with the power; that is clear.~SOCRATES:
68  Gorg|           have provided himself with power and art; and if he have
69  Gorg|               Then, as would appear, power and art have to be provided
70  Gorg|              companion of the ruling power.~CALLICLES: Well said, Socrates;
71  Gorg|             is the man who will have power in the state, and no one
72  Gorg|             of his master and by the power which he thus acquires will
73  Gorg|              one else, in his saving power, for he sometimes saves
74  Gorg|             good graces, and to have power in the state; whereas I
75  Gorg|              the acquisition of this power, like the Thessalian enchantresses,
76  Gorg|         office, or any other sort of power, be gentle and good. Shall
77  Gorg|             possess at present: this power which they have Prometheus
78  Gorg|        crimes, because they have the power. And Homer witnesses to
79  Gorg|             to think, was not in his power, and he was happier than
80  Gorg|       happier than those who had the power. No, Callicles, the very
81  Gorg|              class of those who have power (compare Republic). And
82  Gorg|             for where there is great power to do wrong, to live and
83  Gorg|             And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men