Dialogue

 1  Gorg|      still less with the ‘recent’ death of Pericles, who really
 2  Gorg|      popular will would be put to death before he had done any good
 3  Gorg|         better than to put him to death?~And now, as he himself
 4  Gorg|         no wish to put any one to death; he who kills another, even
 5  Gorg|          is crucified or burnt to death. Socrates replies, that
 6  Gorg|           whether life may not be death, and death life?’ Nay, there
 7  Gorg|        life may not be death, and death life?’ Nay, there are philosophers
 8  Gorg|        might be accused or put to death or boxed on the ears with
 9  Gorg|          which also save men from death, and are yet quite humble
10  Gorg|          good in saving them from death, if one of them is diseased
11  Gorg|        last they condemned him to death. Yet surely he would be
12  Gorg|          him, or condemned him to death.’ As if the statesman should
13  Gorg|          the only way of avoiding death, replies Socrates; and he
14  Gorg|           shall die in peace. For death is no evil, but to go to
15  Gorg|        judged on the day of their death, and when judgment had been
16  Gorg|     procedure, and try them after death, having first sent down
17  Gorg|         them the foreknowledge of death. Minos, Rhadamanthus, and
18  Gorg|          the court of appeal. Now death is the separation of soul
19  Gorg|          soul and body, but after death soul and body alike retain
20  Gorg|        life is to be able to meet death. And I exhort you, and retort
21  Gorg|            we do not suppose that death or wounds are without pain,
22  Gorg|           times rather have their death than a shameful life. Nor
23  Gorg|         be happy in life or after death. In the Republic, he endeavours
24  Gorg|         suggests in the Apology, ‘death be only a long sleep,’ we
25  Gorg|          corporeal likeness after death. (3) The appeal of the authority
26  Gorg|         the nature of disease and death. Especially when crimes
27  Gorg|            Reason tells them that death comes sooner or later to
28  Gorg|        vice as they avoid pain or death. But nature, with a view
29  Gorg|        governor will find ruin or death staring him in the face,
30  Gorg|        attended only by a painful death? He himself may be ready
31  Gorg|         lately devoted himself to death by a lingering disease that
32  Gorg|           principle stronger than death. He who serves man without
33  Gorg|       payment for saving men from death, the reason being that he
34  Gorg|      await good and bad men after death. It supposes the body to
35  Gorg|           the power of foreseeing death, and brings together the
36  Gorg|           in a word or two: After death the Judgment; and ‘there
37  Gorg|         will become of them after death? The first question is unfamiliar
38  Gorg| detestation, banished, and put to death, and not his instructor.~
39  Gorg|     physician would be starved to death. A flattery I deem this
40  Gorg|         he who is unjustly put to death is wretched, and to be pitied?~
41  Gorg|        you see ought to be put to death, the man whom I have a mind
42  Gorg|       speaking, the infliction of death, and exile, and the deprivation
43  Gorg|        exile, to be exiled, if of death, to die, himself being the
44  Gorg|        have done things worthy of death, let him not die, but rather
45  Gorg|           to claim the penalty of death. And yet, Socrates, what
46  Gorg|          Who knows if life be not death and death life;’~and that
47  Gorg|          if life be not death and death life;’~and that we are very
48  Gorg|         swimming saves a man from death, and there are occasions
49  Gorg|      theft, and almost put him to death, clearly under the notion
50  Gorg|         be thrown into the pit of death, and he was only saved by
51  Gorg|          could be unjustly put to death by the city of which he
52  Gorg|          surprised if I am put to death. Shall I tell you why I
53  Gorg|        man done to you: he is the death of you, especially of the
54  Gorg|           not find me repining at death. For no man who is not an
55  Gorg|           and coward is afraid of death itself, but he is afraid
56  Gorg|           of the foreknowledge of death, which they possess at present:
57  Gorg|         the following inferences:—Death, if I am right, is in the
58  Gorg|          be distinguishable after death, either perfectly, or in
59  Gorg|           happy in life and after death, as the argument shows.
60  Gorg|          every virtue in life and death. This way let us go; and