Dialogue

 1  Gorg|          sees in the laws of the state only a violation of the
 2  Gorg|        well as Callicles is in a state of perplexity and uncertainty.
 3  Gorg|         individuals power in the state, is the greatest good.’
 4  Gorg|        to persuade or advise the state?~Gorgias illustrates the
 5  Gorg|        as he pleases in the free state of Athens. Socrates retorts,
 6  Gorg|     criminal attempt against the state, is crucified or burnt to
 7  Gorg|          surely cannot blame the state for having unjustly used
 8  Gorg|         two modes of serving the state Callicles invites him:—‘
 9  Gorg|      delivered from the shameful state of ignorance and uncertainty
10  Gorg|   assured here in a well-ordered state. But in the actual condition
11  Gorg|         his doctrine of a future state of rewards and punishments
12  Gorg|       thought to be condemning a state of the world which always
13  Gorg|   Republic they are expelled the State, because they are imitators,
14  Gorg|       territory, but on an ideal state, in which all the citizens
15  Gorg|        is the serving-man of the state. In order to govern men
16  Gorg| discussed; the veil of the ideal state, the shadow of another life,
17  Gorg|       former as well as a future state of existence. To these may
18  Gorg|      figure of the number of the state (Republic), or the numerical
19  Gorg|      government of God; it was a state of innocence in which men
20  Gorg|      that of Cronos, which was a state of innocence, or that of
21  Gorg|          as the possibility of a state of innocence, the existence
22  Gorg|       any more than in the ideal state.~It is characteristic of
23  Gorg|       you teach us to advise the state?—about the just and unjust
24  Gorg|          is the most free-spoken state in Hellas, you when you
25  Gorg|        one have great power in a state?~POLUS: He will not.~SOCRATES:
26  Gorg|      what seems good to him in a state, and not have great power,
27  Gorg|        seemed good to you in the state, rather than not; you would
28  Gorg|  whatever seems good to you in a state, killing, banishing, doing
29  Gorg| inexperienced in the laws of the State, and in the language which
30  Gorg|       court of justice could you state a case, or give any reason
31  Gorg|          I was in a satisfactory state, and that no other test
32  Gorg|          the administration of a state, and who are not only wise,
33  Gorg|          the administration of a state—they ought to be the rulers
34  Gorg|          hunger, I mean the mere state of hunger, was pleasant
35  Gorg|         sick man who is in a bad state of health a quantity of
36  Gorg|       sir? While she is in a bad state and is senseless and intemperate
37  Gorg|       both of himself and of the state, acting so that he may have
38  Gorg|      been already set forth as I state them in the previous discussion,
39  Gorg|       who will have power in the state, and no one will injure
40  Gorg|         and to have power in the state; whereas I want you to think
41  Gorg|       for the benefit of his own state, allow me to recall to you
42  Gorg|    already, that in the Athenian State no one has ever shown himself
43  Gorg|        as the serving-men of the State; and I do think that they
44  Gorg|        gratify the wishes of the State; but as to transforming
45  Gorg|      come repeating, Has not the State had good and noble citizens?
46  Gorg|       ulcerated condition of the State is to be attributed to these
47  Gorg|          our statesmen. When the State treats any of them as malefactors,
48  Gorg|       their many services to the State, that they should unjustly
49  Gorg|       best govern his family and state, then to say that you will
50  Gorg|          to which service of the State do you invite me? determine
51  Gorg|          be the physician of the State who will strive and struggle
52  Gorg|     servant and flatterer of the State? Speak out, my good friend,
53  Gorg|     should be the servant of the State.~SOCRATES: The flatterer?
54  Gorg|        know that in the Athenian State any man may suffer anything.