Dialogue

 1  Gorg|  greatest of human things.’ But tell me, Gorgias, what are the
 2  Gorg|         you mean by the better? Tell me that, and please to be
 3  Gorg|     harmony, which, as the wise tell us, is the bond of heaven
 4  Gorg|        In proof of which I will tell you a tale:—~Under the rule
 5  Gorg|      long sleep,’ we can hardly tell what would have been his
 6  Gorg|   understand, and will ask him: Tell me, Gorgias, is our friend
 7  Gorg|      arts which also use words, tell me what is that quality
 8  Gorg|      Socrates?~SOCRATES: I will tell you: I am very well aware
 9  Gorg|      you like.~SOCRATES: Let me tell you then, Gorgias, what
10  Gorg|       practises I really cannot tell:—from what he was just now
11  Gorg|     fine thing? But I shall not tell him whether rhetoric is
12  Gorg|      answer both of them. And I tell you, Polus, that rhetoricians
13  Gorg|     this.~SOCRATES: But can you tell me why you disapprove of
14  Gorg|    agree?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Tell me, then, when do you say
15  Gorg|      him.~POLUS: And cannot you tell at once, and without having
16  Gorg|         from repenting: shall I tell you how he showed his remorse?
17  Gorg|      can have to say.~SOCRATES: Tell me, then, and you will know,
18  Gorg|          Please to reflect, and tell me your opinion.~POLUS:
19  Gorg| previous discussion.~CALLICLES: Tell me, Chaerephon, is Socrates
20  Gorg|        By the gods, and I will. Tell me, Socrates, are you in
21  Gorg|      Socrates?~SOCRATES: I will tell you; I think that I have
22  Gorg|         wise, but they will not tell me the truth, because they
23  Gorg|      you are my friend. Shall I tell you why I think so? I know
24  Gorg|       you are my friend, as you tell me yourself. And therefore
25  Gorg|   instruction. Once more, then, tell me what you and Pindar mean
26  Gorg|      please to begin again, and tell me who the better are, if
27  Gorg|    things against me, I am not:—tell me, then, whom you mean,
28  Gorg|    explaining nothing?—will you tell me whether you mean by the
29  Gorg|  SOCRATES: But why will you not tell me in what a man must be
30  Gorg|     good friend, that you would tell me, once for all, whom you
31  Gorg|       life may become manifest. Tell me, then:—you say, do you
32  Gorg|          SOCRATES: Well, I will tell you another image, which
33  Gorg|      shame: and first, will you tell me whether you include itching
34  Gorg|      good—I wish that you would tell me whether you agree with
35  Gorg|       now I wish that you would tell me whether you agree with
36  Gorg|          Yes.~SOCRATES: Can you tell me the pursuits which delight
37  Gorg|         am afraid that I cannot tell you of any such among the
38  Gorg|    distinguishing them,—can you tell me of any of these statesmen
39  Gorg|    friendship. And philosophers tell us, Callicles, that communion
40  Gorg|        be repeated once more. I tell you, Callicles, that to
41  Gorg|      sense.~SOCRATES: Think and tell me whether you would approve
42  Gorg|    despise the swimmers, I will tell you of another and greater
43  Gorg|         is aware that he cannot tell which of his fellow-passengers
44  Gorg|       questions of one another. Tell me, then, Callicles, how
45  Gorg|     stranger, slave or freeman? Tell me, Callicles, if a person
46  Gorg|          But what I am going to tell you now is not mere hearsay,
47  Gorg|     friendship, my good sir, do tell me whether there does not
48  Gorg|      and ought to do again, and tell me your entire mind.~CALLICLES:
49  Gorg|        am put to death. Shall I tell you why I anticipate this?~
50  Gorg|     objection, I should like to tell you a story.~CALLICLES:
51  Gorg|      What is to be done? I will tell you:—In the first place,