Dialogue

 1  Gorg|       uses relate to the best and greatest of human things.’ But tell
 2  Gorg|        power in the state, is the greatest good.’ But what is the exact
 3  Gorg|           because that brings the greatest hurt. And there are three
 4  Gorg|    ridiculous. To do wrong is the greatest of evils, and to suffer
 5  Gorg|          suffer wrong is the next greatest evil. He who would avoid
 6  Gorg|       escape? And in this way the greatest of all evils will befall
 7  Gorg|  conception of happiness. For the greatest happiness of the greatest
 8  Gorg|         greatest happiness of the greatest number may mean also the
 9  Gorg|          number may mean also the greatest pain of the individual which
10  Gorg| individual which will procure the greatest pleasure of the greatest
11  Gorg|          greatest pleasure of the greatest number. Ideas of utility,
12  Gorg|          which have exercised the greatest influence on mankind. Into
13  Gorg|     conditions of human life. The greatest statesmen have fallen very
14  Gorg|        most miserable of men. The greatest consequences for good or
15  Gorg|        all, but to a good man the greatest good. For in all of us there
16  Gorg|   religious point of view, is the greatest of misfortunes. The success
17  Gorg|         while seeming to have the greatest. For he is actually bringing
18  Gorg|        present, not excepting the greatest names of history. Mankind
19  Gorg|          of teachers; and the two greatest of the Greek dramatists
20  Gorg|           thoughts of man, of the greatest deeds of the past. The poet
21  Gorg|       This is what we mean by the greatest improvement of man. And
22  Gorg|          a mere blank to him. The greatest act of faith, the only faith
23  Gorg|           relate?~GORGIAS: To the greatest, Socrates, and the best
24  Gorg|           dark: for which are the greatest and best of human things?
25  Gorg|         art is concerned with the greatest good of men and not his.’
26  Gorg|        that your art produces the greatest good? ‘Certainly,’ he will
27  Gorg|             for is not health the greatest good? What greater good
28  Gorg|         consider wealth to be the greatest good of man? ‘Of course,’
29  Gorg|         which, as you say, is the greatest good of man, and of which
30  Gorg|      Socrates, which is truly the greatest, being that which gives
31  Gorg|         as doing injustice is the greatest of evils.~POLUS: But is
32  Gorg|       evils.~POLUS: But is it the greatest? Is not suffering injustice
33  Gorg|         he has been guilty of the greatest crimes: in the first place
34  Gorg|      killed. And now as he is the greatest criminal of all the Macedonians,
35  Gorg|   question; which is, Whether the greatest of evils to a guilty man
36  Gorg|           then delivered from the greatest evil? Look at the matter
37  Gorg|           hurtfulness will be the greatest of evils?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
38  Gorg|    depravity of the soul, are the greatest of evils?~POLUS: That is
39  Gorg|            if the best, gives the greatest pleasure or advantage or
40  Gorg|         be a deliverance from the greatest of evils, which is vice?~
41  Gorg|          has been shown to be the greatest of evils.~POLUS: Clearly.~
42  Gorg|       lives worst who commits the greatest crimes, and who, being the
43  Gorg|           being released from the greatest of evils; they provide themselves
44  Gorg|        doing of injustice, is the greatest of evils?~POLUS: That is
45  Gorg|         be punished, is first and greatest of all?~POLUS: That is true.~
46  Gorg|           injustice, which is the greatest evil. Then, Polus, rhetoric
47  Gorg|     pursues that, and devotes the greatest portion of the day to that
48  Gorg|         others, when he is in the greatest danger and is going to be
49  Gorg|         the largest coat, and the greatest number of them, and go about
50  Gorg|       largest shoes, and have the greatest number of them?~CALLICLES:
51  Gorg|          they have grown to their greatest he should have courage and
52  Gorg|         shall inscribe you as the greatest of benefactors on the tablets
53  Gorg|        true, and injustice is the greatest of evils to the doer of
54  Gorg|      possible a greater than this greatest of evils (compare Republic),
55  Gorg|          one which will avert the greatest of human evils? And will
56  Gorg|          unable to avert the next greatest evil; thirdly that which
57  Gorg|         unable to avert the third greatest evil; and so of other evils.
58  Gorg|          and will not this be the greatest evil to him?~CALLICLES:
59  Gorg|         the other had in view the greatest improvement of that which
60  Gorg|       they are the authors of the greatest and most impious crimes,