Dialogue

 1  Gorg|          in earnest; for if these things are true, then, as he says
 2  Gorg|       will be reversed; all those things ‘unfit for ears polite’
 3  Gorg|       nature and bearing of these things, while he affirms at the
 4  Gorg|        best and greatest of human things.’ But tell me, Gorgias,
 5  Gorg|         thing, but, like all good things, may be unlawfully used.
 6  Gorg|  persuaded that the fouler of two things must exceed either in pain
 7  Gorg|        are always saying the same things, Socrates.’ Yes, and on
 8  Gorg|         are never saying the same things. For, first, you defined
 9  Gorg|         have the enjoyment of all things! For the truth is, Socrates,
10  Gorg|       himself and Polus, that all things should be done for the sake
11  Gorg|         makes us good; we and all things good have acquired some
12  Gorg|       whether of body or soul, of things or persons, is not attained
13  Gorg|          the true nature of these things, but I know that no one
14  Gorg|         actual condition of human things the wise and good are weak
15  Gorg|          meditations on the ‘last things,’ have found a ray of light
16  Gorg|           the best, for to it all things submit, not by compulsion,
17  Gorg|           seeming enters into all things; all or almost all desire
18  Gorg|          but the most real of all things, being another name for
19  Gorg|         and politics. He uses the things of sense so as to indicate
20  Gorg|           that God will order all things for the best (compare Phaedo),
21  Gorg|           earth brought forth all things spontaneously, and God was
22  Gorg|        exhibiting to us many fine things.~SOCRATES: It is not my
23  Gorg|      should ask. To what class of things do the words which rhetoric
24  Gorg|   Socrates, and the best of human things.~SOCRATES: That again, Gorgias
25  Gorg|        greatest and best of human things? I dare say that you have
26  Gorg|       that the producers of those things which the author of the
27  Gorg|      learning and belief the same things?~GORGIAS: In my judgment,
28  Gorg|         or other assemblies about things just and unjust, but he
29  Gorg|        only, or about those other things also which Socrates has
30  Gorg|          not know the truth about things; he has only to discover
31  Gorg|          to know more about these things than some one else who knows?
32  Gorg|         must the pupil know these things and come to you knowing
33  Gorg|          knows the truth of these things first? What is to be said
34  Gorg|         have to learn of me these things as well.~SOCRATES: Say no
35  Gorg|      branches, and four different things answering to them. And Polus
36  Gorg|         SOCRATES: And are not all things either good or evil, or
37  Gorg|         should.~SOCRATES: And the things which are neither good nor
38  Gorg|           the like:—these are the things which you call neither good
39  Gorg|   SOCRATES: Are these indifferent things done for the sake of the
40  Gorg|           Men who do any of these things do them for the sake of
41  Gorg|        else, we do not will those things which we do, but that other
42  Gorg|           banishing, doing in all things as you like.~SOCRATES: Well
43  Gorg|          not acknowledge that the things of which we were speaking,
44  Gorg|       When you speak of beautiful things, such as bodies, colours,
45  Gorg|        Then when of two beautiful things one exceeds in beauty, the
46  Gorg|     SOCRATES: And of two deformed things, that which exceeds in deformity
47  Gorg|           not allow that all just things are honourable in so far
48  Gorg|  honourable; let him who has done things worthy of stripes, allow
49  Gorg|      justice; and if he have done things worthy of death, let him
50  Gorg|    philosophy and go on to higher things: for philosophy, Socrates,
51  Gorg| necessarily ignorant of all those things which a gentleman and a
52  Gorg|            are careless about the things of which you ought to be
53  Gorg|          now saying many ironical things against me, I am not:—tell
54  Gorg|           and also about the same things.~CALLICLES: Yes, by the
55  Gorg|           the same about the same things, for at one time you were
56  Gorg|      courage and knowledge as two things different from one another?~
57  Gorg|           The artist disposes all things in order, and compels the
58  Gorg|         we are good, and all good things whatever are good when some
59  Gorg|        but what he ought, whether things or men or pleasures or pains,
60  Gorg|         is my position, and these things I affirm to be true. And
61  Gorg|           be true.~And now, these things being as we have said, let
62  Gorg|      myself am ignorant how these things are, but that I have never
63  Gorg|         processes of training all things, including body and soul;
64  Gorg|       good men, as you say, these things would never have happened
65  Gorg|     saying, ‘O my boys, many evil things has this man done to you:
66  Gorg|         only say, ‘All these evil things, my boys, I did for your
67  Gorg|           from one another of two things, soul and body; nothing
68  Gorg|   persuaded of the truth of these things, and I consider how I shall
69  Gorg|          to be followed above all things, as well in public as in