Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     various results. The value and use of the method has been hardly,
 2  Gorg|           of the building; but the use of this is limited, and
 3  Gorg|           disguise, and no further use for the teaching of rhetoric.~
 4  Gorg|            he censures the puerile use which he makes of them.
 5  Gorg|          are unjust and make a bad use of the lessons which they
 6  Gorg|            at not being allowed to use as many words as he pleases
 7  Gorg|      paradox is true that the only use of rhetoric is in self-accusation,
 8  Gorg|           this, as you say, is the use of rhetoric in courts of
 9  Gorg|         and again (and I purposely use the same images) that the
10  Gorg|        charge; and in the proposed use of rhetoric as an instrument
11  Gorg|           Socrates would have them use rhetoric, not in defence
12  Gorg|         the human race by a better use of the poetical and imaginative
13  Gorg|          life. Plato seems to make use of them when he has reached
14  Gorg|          on another question: What use did the children of Cronos
15  Gorg|          and xix.). Whether such a use of language is puerile or
16  Gorg|            But he has discovered a use of language in which they
17  Gorg|         that you never heard a man use fewer words.~SOCRATES: Very
18  Gorg|          which works mainly by the use of words, and there are
19  Gorg|          are other arts which also use words, tell me what is that
20  Gorg| interrogated by them. ‘What is the use of coming to you, Gorgias?’
21  Gorg|          the physician just by the use of rhetoric. And I say that
22  Gorg|  instructions, and turned to a bad use their own strength and skill.
23  Gorg|          that those who make a bad use of the art are to blame.
24  Gorg|         has the power; he ought to use rhetoric fairly, as he would
25  Gorg|           fairly, as he would also use his athletic powers. And
26  Gorg|         rhetorician he makes a bad use of his strength and skill,
27  Gorg|         his teacher to make a good use of his instructions, but
28  Gorg|         the pugilist makes a wrong use of his pugilistic art; and
29  Gorg| rhetorician makes a bad and unjust use of his rhetoric, that is
30  Gorg|  wrong-doer himself who made a bad use of his rhetoric—he is to
31  Gorg|       rhetorician might make a bad use of rhetoric I noted with
32  Gorg|      incapable of making an unjust use of rhetoric, or of willingness
33  Gorg|            you mean that I may not use as many words as I please?~
34  Gorg|   understand me, and could make no use of my answer when I spoke
35  Gorg|            equal inability to make use of yours, I hope that you
36  Gorg|       which they give, or of their use, or of both?~POLUS: Yes,
37  Gorg|           true, where is the great use of rhetoric? If we admit
38  Gorg|             Then rhetoric is of no use to us, Polus, in helping
39  Gorg|          or country; but may be of use to any one who holds that
40  Gorg|          but is of small if of any use to him who is not intending
41  Gorg|           least, there was no such use discovered by us in the
42  Gorg|          being a man who, if I may use the expression, may be boxed
43  Gorg|        nondescripts, who are of no use except perhaps for their
44  Gorg|            will not expend or make use of a larger share of them
45  Gorg|         ought we not to choose and use the good pleasures and pains?~
46  Gorg|          agree.~SOCRATES: For what use is there, Callicles, in
47  Gorg|         that to this end he should use his rhetoric—all those consequences
48  Gorg|            riveted by us, if I may use an expression which is certainly
49  Gorg|        discovered that there is no use in imparting to them any
50  Gorg|         rhetoricians, they did not use the true art of rhetoric
51  Gorg|         and all that they crave. I use the same images as before
52  Gorg|            of all the rest, and to use their results according
53  Gorg|            the money will be of no use to him, but that he will
54  Gorg|           but that he will wrongly use that which he wrongly took,
55  Gorg|        pleasant, having no mind to use those arts and graces which
56  Gorg|         speak evil of old men, and use bitter words towards them,