Dialogue

 1  Gorg|          be wholly separated from justice and injustice, and this
 2  Gorg|            and he who has learned justice is just. The rhetorician
 3  Gorg|       first place, a man may know justice and not be just—here is
 4  Gorg|          man may have a degree of justice, but not sufficient to prevent
 5  Gorg|          will admit that he knows justice (how can he do otherwise
 6  Gorg|     rhetoric is the simulation of justice, and sophistic of legislation.
 7  Gorg|             rhetoric : the art of justice.~And this is the true scheme
 8  Gorg|           is adduced in courts of justice, where truth depends upon
 9  Gorg|          evils—trading, medicine, justice—and the fairest of these
10  Gorg|           the fairest of these is justice. Happy is he who has never
11  Gorg|         if his pupil did not know justice the rhetorician must teach
12  Gorg|         then the light of natural justice shines forth. Pindar says, ‘
13  Gorg|        and Pindar mean by natural justice. Do they suppose that the
14  Gorg|          suppose that the rule of justice is the rule of the stronger
15  Gorg|         And their opinion is that justice is equality, and that to
16  Gorg|           as well as conventional justice. ‘Why will you continue
17  Gorg|    actions; he desires to implant justice and eradicate injustice,
18  Gorg|          of rhetoric in courts of justice. But how many other arts
19  Gorg|          but neglected virtue and justice. And when the fit of illness
20  Gorg|          in the way of virtue and justice, and not in the way to which
21  Gorg|     injustice, or of medicine and justice, is certainly imperfect.
22  Gorg|           statesmen have received justice at their hands.~The true
23  Gorg|          always discoursing about justice, could not possibly be an
24  Gorg|       cannot teach, the nature of justice? The truth is, that there
25  Gorg|          answers to gymnastic, as justice does to medicine; and the
26  Gorg|       parts run into one another, justice having to do with the same
27  Gorg|             medicine : rhetoric : justice.~And this, I say, is the
28  Gorg|           matter of education and justice.~POLUS: What! and does all
29  Gorg| accordance with a certain rule of justice?~POLUS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
30  Gorg|        medicine from disease; and justice from intemperance and injustice?~
31  Gorg|       Money-making, medicine, and justice.~POLUS: Justice, Socrates,
32  Gorg|     medicine, and justice.~POLUS: Justice, Socrates, far excels the
33  Gorg|         two others.~SOCRATES: And justice, if the best, gives the
34  Gorg|        POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: And justice punishes us, and makes us
35  Gorg|          case who strive to evade justice, which they see to be painful,
36  Gorg|        regardless of religion and justice; and if he have done things
37  Gorg|        rhetoric, and did not know justice, he would teach him justice,
38  Gorg|       justice, he would teach him justice, Gorgias in his modesty
39  Gorg|      whole cities and races, that justice consists in the superior
40  Gorg|          For on what principle of justice did Xerxes invade Hellas,
41  Gorg|          and the light of natural justice would shine forth. And this
42  Gorg|   exterior; Neither in a court of justice could you state a case,
43  Gorg|        and Pindar mean by natural justice: Do you not mean that the
44  Gorg|          were lately saying, that justice is equality, and that to
45  Gorg|        suffer injustice, and that justice is equality; so that you
46  Gorg|          I conceive to be natural justice—that the better and wiser
47  Gorg|       rulers of their states, and justice consists in their having
48  Gorg|       this I affirm to be natural justice and nobility. To this however
49  Gorg|        they praise temperance and justice out of their own cowardice.
50  Gorg|     plight whom the reputation of justice and temperance hinders from
51  Gorg|         so we have temperance and justice: have we not?~CALLICLES:
52  Gorg|         not his aim be to implant justice in the souls of his citizens
53  Gorg|          need of punishment, then justice must be done and he must
54  Gorg|           may have temperance and justice present with him and be
55  Gorg|    orderliness and temperance and justice bind together heaven and
56  Gorg|        happy by the possession of justice and temperance, and the
57  Gorg|           and have a knowledge of justice, has also turned out to
58  Gorg|           on your principle, what justice or reason is there in your
59  Gorg|         and have left no room for justice and temperance. And when
60  Gorg|       from them, and who have had justice implanted in them by their
61  Gorg|           brought into a court of justice, as you very likely may
62  Gorg|        have nothing to say in the justice court. And you might argue
63  Gorg|         this I do for the sake of justice, and with a view to your
64  Gorg|         has lived all his life in justice and holiness shall go, when
65  Gorg|       done always, with a view to justice.~Follow me then, and I will
66  Gorg|        way of life is to practise justice and every virtue in life