Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        separated from justice and injustice, and this lingering sentiment
 2  Gorg|         honourable than to suffer injustice. Though he is fascinated
 3  Gorg|          maintaining the cause of injustice against the world. He has
 4  Gorg|       better to suffer than to do injustice. He does not consider that
 5  Gorg|      these are, poverty, disease, injustice; and the foulest of these
 6  Gorg|           the foulest of these is injustice, the evil of the soul, because
 7  Gorg|           who has never committed injustice, and happy in the second
 8  Gorg|        more honourable than to do injustice. By custom ‘yes,’ but not
 9  Gorg|         For convention says that ‘injustice is dishonourable,’ but nature
10  Gorg|     implant justice and eradicate injustice, to implant all virtue and
11  Gorg|           the same power of doing injustice. Sisyphus and Tityus, not
12  Gorg|        the analogy of disease and injustice is partial only, and that
13  Gorg|        the analogy of disease and injustice, or of medicine and justice,
14  Gorg|         evil to do than to suffer injustice.~Compare the New Testament—~‘
15  Gorg|        asked, to acknowledge that injustice is dishonourable, and for
16  Gorg|       willing to acknowledge that injustice, even if successful, is
17  Gorg|          will never consent to do injustice?~GORGIAS: Certainly not.~
18  Gorg|  therefore never be willing to do injustice?~GORGIAS: Clearly not.~SOCRATES:
19  Gorg|  rhetorician will never have done injustice at all?~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES:
20  Gorg|           or of willingness to do injustice. By the dog, Gorgias, there
21  Gorg|        well be, inasmuch as doing injustice is the greatest of evils.~
22  Gorg|        greatest? Is not suffering injustice a greater evil?~SOCRATES:
23  Gorg|         you rather suffer than do injustice?~SOCRATES: I should not
24  Gorg|           who is unjust and doing injustice can be happy, seeing that
25  Gorg|           is worse than to suffer injustice?~POLUS: Exactly so.~SOCRATES:
26  Gorg|       greater evil than to suffer injustice: and not to be punished
27  Gorg|    example, suffer rather than do injustice?~SOCRATES: Yes, and you,
28  Gorg|      opinion, is the worst?—to do injustice or to suffer?~POLUS: I should
29  Gorg|     consider whether the doing of injustice exceeds the suffering in
30  Gorg|        True.~SOCRATES: Then doing injustice will have an excess of evil,
31  Gorg|       greater evil than suffering injustice?~POLUS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
32  Gorg|         already agreed that to do injustice is more disgraceful than
33  Gorg|       would rather do than suffer injustice; for to do injustice is
34  Gorg|       suffer injustice; for to do injustice is the greater evil of the
35  Gorg|           And this you would call injustice and ignorance and cowardice,
36  Gorg|         three corresponding evils—injustice, disease, poverty?~POLUS:
37  Gorg|          most disgraceful of them injustice, and in general the evil
38  Gorg|      Certainly.~SOCRATES: And now injustice and all evil in the soul
39  Gorg|        POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then injustice and intemperance, and in
40  Gorg|            And what from vice and injustice? If you are not able to
41  Gorg|     justice from intemperance and injustice?~POLUS: That is evident.~
42  Gorg|           has no deliverance from injustice?~POLUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
43  Gorg|   SOCRATES: Is it not a fact that injustice, and the doing of injustice,
44  Gorg|       injustice, and the doing of injustice, is the greatest of evils?~
45  Gorg|         men; and that the doer of injustice is more miserable than the
46  Gorg|         order that the disease of injustice may not be rendered chronic
47  Gorg|           a man to excuse his own injustice, that of his parents or
48  Gorg|  themselves may be delivered from injustice, which is the greatest evil.
49  Gorg|           not intending to commit injustice; at least, there was no
50  Gorg|          I was saying, that to do injustice and to escape punishment
51  Gorg|      dishonourable than to suffer injustice, for this was the admission
52  Gorg|         about doing and suffering injustice. When Polus was speaking
53  Gorg|         rule of nature, to suffer injustice is the greater disgrace
54  Gorg| disgraceful. For the suffering of injustice is not the part of a man,
55  Gorg|      unjust; meaning, by the word injustice, the desire of a man to
56  Gorg|         and unjust, and is called injustice (compare Republic), whereas
57  Gorg|        disgraceful than to suffer injustice?—is that so or not? Answer,
58  Gorg|        disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice is equality;
59  Gorg|        his citizens and take away injustice, to implant temperance and
60  Gorg|           true, viz., that, to do injustice, if more disgraceful than
61  Gorg|          I am saying is true, and injustice is the greatest of evils
62  Gorg|           of evils to the doer of injustice, and yet there is if possible
63  Gorg|        these two evils, the doing injustice and the suffering injustice—
64  Gorg|       injustice and the suffering injustice—and we affirm that to do
65  Gorg|          and we affirm that to do injustice is a greater, and to suffer
66  Gorg|          a greater, and to suffer injustice a lesser evil—by what devices
67  Gorg|        the other of not suffering injustice? must he have the power,
68  Gorg|         whether a man will escape injustice if he has only the will
69  Gorg|          what do you say of doing injustice? Is the will only sufficient,
70  Gorg|       that prevent him from doing injustice, or must he have provided
71  Gorg|           order that we may do no injustice?~CALLICLES: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
72  Gorg|         protect us from suffering injustice, if not wholly, yet as far
73  Gorg|         be like the tyrant in his injustice, and to have influence with
74  Gorg|          just and good, and whose injustice has been taken away from
75  Gorg|         unjustly by reason of the injustice which is not in them? Can
76  Gorg|        unjustly, but by reason of injustice.~CALLICLES: Very true.~SOCRATES:
77  Gorg|      SOCRATES: And he who removes injustice can be in no danger of being
78  Gorg|         having one’s soul full of injustice is the last and worst of
79  Gorg|        but the saying, that to do injustice is more to be avoided than
80  Gorg|         be avoided than to suffer injustice, and that the reality and