Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        described as of a generous nature; he expresses his approbation
 2  Gorg|         violation of the order of nature, which intended that the
 3  Gorg| generalizes the bad side of human nature, and has easily brought
 4  Gorg|           is ignorant of the true nature and bearing of these things,
 5  Gorg|  interrogating him concerning the nature of his art. Callicles proposes
 6  Gorg|      mistaken the quality for the nature of the art, and remarks
 7  Gorg|             But what is the exact nature of this persuasion?—is the
 8  Gorg|           Gorgias illustrates the nature of rhetoric by adducing
 9  Gorg|          custom ‘yes,’ but not by nature, says Callicles. And Socrates
10  Gorg|    affirmed by him to be a law of nature. For convention says that ‘
11  Gorg|  injustice is dishonourable,’ but nature says that ‘might is right.’
12  Gorg|          myself know not the true nature of these things, but I know
13  Gorg|         of several words, such as nature, custom, the honourable,
14  Gorg|          the better part of human nature.~The idealism of Plato is
15  Gorg|      given through something; the nature of the mind which is unseen
16  Gorg|          partake of the imperfect nature of language, and must not
17  Gorg|          consist in the permanent nature of the one compared with
18  Gorg|        the transient and relative nature of the other. Good and pleasure,
19  Gorg|        his mind, not on the ideal nature of good, but on the subjective
20  Gorg|          the weaker side of human nature. That poetry is akin to
21  Gorg|        any abstract right of this nature: but he is asserting the
22  Gorg|     essentially evil, and has the nature of disease and death. Especially
23  Gorg|         generally, are of a mixed nature we must not allow our principles
24  Gorg|          avoid pain or death. But nature, with a view of deepening
25  Gorg|     intended. And yet the book of nature is open to him, in which
26  Gorg|            The sophistry of human nature is far more subtle than
27  Gorg|   increase our knowledge of human nature. There have been poets in
28  Gorg|          reveal to them their own nature, and make them better acquainted
29  Gorg|          the weaker side of human nature (Republic); he idealizes
30  Gorg|         is recapitulated, and the nature and degrees of knowledge
31  Gorg|  philosophy, gathering from every nature some addition to their store
32  Gorg|         hear from him what is the nature of his art, and what it
33  Gorg|         quality, but what was the nature, of the art, and by what
34  Gorg|    according to you, is the exact nature, or what are the topics
35  Gorg|          do better than learn the nature of your art from you. And
36  Gorg|           reveal to you the whole nature of rhetoric. You must have
37  Gorg|          when I asked what is the nature of rhetoric, which always
38  Gorg|          any subject. Such is the nature and power of the art of
39  Gorg|  rhetorician must either know the nature of the just and unjust already,
40  Gorg|        know, or cannot teach, the nature of justice? The truth is,
41  Gorg|          colt by name and colt by nature, is apt to run away. (This
42  Gorg|           to give a reason of the nature of its own applications.
43  Gorg|          partake sometimes of the nature of good and at other times
44  Gorg|           stricken is of the same nature as the act of him who strikes?~
45  Gorg|           cut will be of the same nature?~POLUS: That is evident.~
46  Gorg|         as if he did not know the nature of health and bodily vigour;
47  Gorg|      conventional. Convention and nature are generally at variance
48  Gorg|         determined by the rule of nature; and if he is talking of
49  Gorg|         is talking of the rule of nature, you slip away to custom:
50  Gorg|         from the point of view of nature; for by the rule of nature,
51  Gorg|        nature; for by the rule of nature, to suffer injustice is
52  Gorg|        compare Republic), whereas nature herself intimates that it
53  Gorg|          men who act according to nature; yes, by Heaven, and according
54  Gorg|           according to the law of nature: not, perhaps, according
55  Gorg|        our laws which are against nature: the slave would rise in
56  Gorg|          of the frankness of your nature and freedom from modesty
57  Gorg|    SOCRATES: Then the many are by nature superior to the one, against
58  Gorg|           are made by them are by nature good?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
59  Gorg|          Then not only custom but nature also affirms that to do
60  Gorg|         accusing me you said that nature and custom are opposed,
61  Gorg|        when the argument is about nature, and to nature when the
62  Gorg|           is about nature, and to nature when the argument is about
63  Gorg|           son of a king, or had a nature capable of acquiring an
64  Gorg|            agreements contrary to nature, foolish talk of men, nothing
65  Gorg|        believing and make-believe nature—a vessel (An untranslatable
66  Gorg|           art, and attends to the nature and constitution of the
67  Gorg|          never regards either the nature or reason of that pleasure
68  Gorg|          are not they of the same nature? Do you imagine that Cinesias
69  Gorg|        described it as having the nature of flattery.~CALLICLES:
70  Gorg|     called after them, must be by nature like them, and not an imitator
71  Gorg|            for example, he who by nature or training or both, was