Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        rhetorician and his younger friend and disciple Polus.~SOCRATES:
 2  Gorg|            must be a ruler, or the friend of a ruler; and to be the
 3  Gorg|          of a ruler; and to be the friend he must be the equal of
 4  Gorg|        will lay hold of you and my friend Alcibiades, and you will
 5  Gorg|           my fault, Callicles; our friend Chaerephon is to blame;
 6  Gorg|           repair; for Gorgias is a friend of mine, and I will make
 7  Gorg|           Tell me, Gorgias, is our friend Callicles right in saying
 8  Gorg|          in the best arts. And our friend Gorgias is one of the best,
 9  Gorg|           say, Who are you, honest friend, and what is your business? ‘
10  Gorg|         shall rejoin: Yes; but our friend Gorgias contends that his
11  Gorg|            than a match either for friend or enemy, he ought not therefore
12  Gorg|        SOCRATES: Only to think, my friend, that having come on a visit
13  Gorg|          explained myself, and our friend Polus, colt by name and
14  Gorg|           and if I am mistaken, my friend Polus shall refute me. We
15  Gorg|          that word with which you, friend Polus, are so well acquainted,
16  Gorg|          of you.~SOCRATES: Yes, my friend, but you ask two questions
17  Gorg|        wretched?~SOCRATES: Yes, my friend, if he killed another unjustly,
18  Gorg|             Well then, illustrious friend, when I have said my say,
19  Gorg|           weary of doing good to a friend.~POLUS: Yes, Socrates, and
20  Gorg|       miserable?~SOCRATES: Yes, my friend, if he is wicked.~POLUS:
21  Gorg|            not happy. But, my good friend, where is the refutation?
22  Gorg|        SOCRATES: Not so, my simple friend, but because you will refute
23  Gorg|            you agree with me, O my friend, for as a friend I regard
24  Gorg|          me, O my friend, for as a friend I regard you. Then these
25  Gorg|        their way of proceeding, my friend, be compared to the conduct
26  Gorg|           the point in dispute, my friend? You deemed Archelaus happy,
27  Gorg|           I am now telling you, my friend; neither is she capricious
28  Gorg|          be a discord. And yet, my friend, I would rather that my
29  Gorg|            impunity. Then, my good friend, take my advice, and refute
30  Gorg|            testify. And you are my friend. Shall I tell you why I
31  Gorg|         deceive me, for you are my friend, as you tell me yourself.
32  Gorg|      Callicles:—am I not right, my friend?~CALLICLES: You talk about
33  Gorg|        courageous: I wish, my good friend, that you would tell me,
34  Gorg|           more than themselves, my friend?~CALLICLES: What do you
35  Gorg|            SOCRATES: Well, my fine friend, but am I the introducer
36  Gorg|        doing wrong. Still, my dear friend, I would ask you to consider
37  Gorg|       CALLICLES: And what does our friend Socrates, of Foxton, say—
38  Gorg|       inference?~SOCRATES: Why, my friend, the inference is that the
39  Gorg|          at first that you were my friend, and would not have deceived
40  Gorg|           end, and shall oblige my friend Gorgias.~SOCRATES: And is
41  Gorg|            life. Such a one is the friend neither of God nor man,
42  Gorg|            disorder or misrule, my friend. But although you are a
43  Gorg|        himself and his son and his friend if he did anything wrong,
44  Gorg|         man appears to be most the friend of him who is most like
45  Gorg|             Neither will he be the friend of any one who is greatly
46  Gorg|          seriously regard him as a friend.~CALLICLES: That again is
47  Gorg|            SOCRATES: Then the only friend worth mentioning, whom the
48  Gorg|            too.~SOCRATES: Well, my friend, but what do you think of
49  Gorg|     salvation, is ridiculous. O my friend! I want you to see that
50  Gorg|     deserve to be the true natural friend of the Athenian Demus, aye,
51  Gorg|        True.~SOCRATES: And now, my friend, as you are already beginning
52  Gorg|          likely.~SOCRATES: Nay, my friend, ‘likely’ is not the word;
53  Gorg| performances.~SOCRATES: O, my dear friend, I say nothing against them
54  Gorg|       pleased if I said to you, My friend, you know nothing of gymnastics;
55  Gorg|         they may assail you and my friend Alcibiades, when they are
56  Gorg|         one and the other? My good friend, the sophist and the rhetorician,
57  Gorg|          State? Speak out, my good friend, freely and fairly as you
58  Gorg|         great men are also bad, my friend.~As I was saying, Rhadamanthus,