Dialogue

 1  Gorg|       to enter the lists. He is said to be the author of a work
 2  Gorg|        should be taken. This is said to have happened ‘last year’ (
 3  Gorg|         other expert. And he is said to be ignorant, and this
 4  Gorg|    overthrown because, as Polus said, in compliance with popular
 5  Gorg|       do than to suffer. What I said then is now made fast in
 6  Gorg|     seemed to understand what I said at the time, but when I
 7  Gorg|          which is never to have said or done any wrong to himself
 8  Gorg|        regarding him; or as was said of another, ‘they looked
 9  Gorg|        of his time.~It has been said that the most characteristic
10  Gorg|   spoilt child is in later life said to be unfortunate—he had
11  Gorg|         and everything has been said on one side, and nothing
12  Gorg|      own country. He would have said that not Pitt or Fox, or
13  Gorg|        the philosopher alone is said to have got rid of the body.
14  Gorg|      that nothing better can be said about a future life. Plato
15  Gorg|         apparitions credible is said to consist in the manner
16  Gorg|    fault with it, but you never said what the art was.~POLUS:
17  Gorg|        words. And if he further said, ‘Concerned with what?’
18  Gorg|     painter is Zeuxis?’ and you said, ‘The painter of figures,’
19  Gorg|     things first? What is to be said about all this? By heavens,
20  Gorg|        be banished—was not that said?~GORGIAS: Yes, it was.~SOCRATES:
21  Gorg|         outset, Gorgias, it was said that rhetoric treated of
22  Gorg|        and unjust? Was not this said?~GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
23  Gorg|     which you had fallen; and I said, that if you thought, as
24  Gorg|      flattery?~SOCRATES: Nay, I said a part of flattery; if at
25  Gorg|     SOCRATES: Polus has already said the reverse.~POLUS: Said
26  Gorg|        said the reverse.~POLUS: Said the reverse! nay, that is
27  Gorg|       Why, have you not already said that they do as they think
28  Gorg|        own interests, he may be said to do what seems best to
29  Gorg|       mean.~POLUS: I mean, as I said before, the power of doing
30  Gorg| illustrious friend, when I have said my say, do you reply to
31  Gorg| according to your doctrine, the said Archelaus is miserable?~
32  Gorg|   Exactly so.~SOCRATES: And you said the opposite?~POLUS: Yes.~
33  Gorg|         POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: I said also that the wicked are
34  Gorg|    right.~SOCRATES: You further said that the wrong-doer is happy
35  Gorg|         And may not the same be said of the beauty of knowledge?~
36  Gorg|      Socrates.~SOCRATES: Then I said truly, Polus, that neither
37  Gorg|          And was not punishment said by us to be a deliverance
38  Gorg|    suffers.—Was not that what I said?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: And
39  Gorg|    admit what has been just now said, every man ought in every
40  Gorg|         accused Gorgias:—for he said that when Gorgias was asked
41  Gorg|         many, is conventionally said to be shameful and unjust,
42  Gorg|         to you much what Zethus said to his brother, that you,
43  Gorg|        seemed to imply when you said that great cities attack
44  Gorg| assertion, when accusing me you said that nature and custom are
45  Gorg|   enough; just what is commonly said, that a man should be temperate
46  Gorg|      want nothing are not truly said to be happy?~CALLICLES:
47  Gorg|        or painful?~CALLICLES: I said painful, but that to eat
48  Gorg| CALLICLES: It is.~SOCRATES: You said also, that no man could
49  Gorg|        still adhere to what you said?~CALLICLES: Yes, I do; but
50  Gorg|         a bad business, as they said of old, and take what I
51  Gorg|        the truth when I further said to Gorgias and Polus that
52  Gorg|        his hearers? Could he be said to regard even their pleasure?
53  Gorg|   former generation, who may be said to have improved the Athenians,
54  Gorg|       were good men, if, as you said at first, true virtue consists
55  Gorg|   SOCRATES: And the same may be said of the human body?~CALLICLES:
56  Gorg|         I was in earnest when I said that a man ought to accuse
57  Gorg|         things being as we have said, let us proceed in the next
58  Gorg|   ruling power.~CALLICLES: Well said, Socrates; and please to
59  Gorg|         soul; in the one, as we said, we treat them with a view
60  Gorg|        man? Nay, we have surely said so; for if you will not
61  Gorg|          the truth is as I have said already, that in the Athenian
62  Gorg|         altogether pleased if I said to you, My friend, you know
63  Gorg|         defence, and have never said or done anything wrong,
64  Gorg|       Blessed came to Zeus, and said that the souls found their
65  Gorg|       to the wrong places. Zeus said: ‘I shall put a stop to
66  Gorg|        And of all that has been said, nothing remains unshaken