Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        is contained in it, that doing wrong is worse than suffering,
 2  Gorg|        to prevent him from ever doing wrong. Polus is naturally
 3  Gorg|        pain or in hurt. But the doing cannot exceed the suffering
 4  Gorg|       must exceed in hurt. Thus doing is proved by the testimony
 5  Gorg|         down, and all of us are doing the opposite of what we
 6  Gorg| opposite of what we ought to be doing.~Socrates replies in a style
 7  Gorg|      have not the same power of doing injustice. Sisyphus and
 8  Gorg|       better to suffer for well doing than for evil doing.’—1
 9  Gorg|        well doing than for evil doing.’—1 Pet.~And the Sermon
10  Gorg|      better to suffer for wrong doing than not to suffer.~There
11  Gorg|        advantage over us—we are doing not what we will, but what
12  Gorg|        much and have overvalued doing. But the habits and discipline
13  Gorg|        if they are conscious of doing evil, they must learn to
14  Gorg|   Gorgias, as we are at present doing, and reserve for another
15  Gorg|        most part concerned with doing, and require little or no
16  Gorg|        will that which they are doing at the time; for who would
17  Gorg|        did we not admit that in doing something for the sake of
18  Gorg|       like to have the power of doing what seemed good to you
19  Gorg|       very well be, inasmuch as doing injustice is the greatest
20  Gorg|       said before, the power of doing whatever seems good to you
21  Gorg|      state, killing, banishing, doing in all things as you like.~
22  Gorg|      you believe that this mere doing as you think best is great
23  Gorg|       POLUS: Certainly not such doing as this.~SOCRATES: But can
24  Gorg|      you will, and not weary of doing good to a friend.~POLUS:
25  Gorg|         a man who is unjust and doing injustice can be happy,
26  Gorg|       continue all through life doing what he likes and holding
27  Gorg|        you just now made, about doing and suffering wrong? Did
28  Gorg|        wrong was more evil, and doing wrong more disgraceful?~
29  Gorg|         did.~SOCRATES: Then, if doing wrong is more disgraceful
30  Gorg|         us consider whether the doing of injustice exceeds the
31  Gorg|     POLUS: True.~SOCRATES: Then doing injustice will have an excess
32  Gorg|         that injustice, and the doing of injustice, is the greatest
33  Gorg|        to guard himself against doing wrong, for he will thereby
34  Gorg|       of his friends who may be doing wrong; he should bring to
35  Gorg|     upside down; and are we not doing, as would appear, in everything
36  Gorg| opposite of what we ought to be doing?~SOCRATES: O Callicles,
37  Gorg|      this very discussion about doing and suffering injustice.
38  Gorg|        Makes might to be right, doing violence with highest hand;
39  Gorg|        words, and hereafter not doing that to which I assented,
40  Gorg|       Why, that is what you are doing too, Socrates.~SOCRATES:
41  Gorg|      SOCRATES: Then we are both doing wrong. Still, my dear friend,
42  Gorg|      ought to be prevented from doing anything which does not
43  Gorg|        are these two evils, the doing injustice and the suffering
44  Gorg|      advantages, the one of not doing and the other of not suffering
45  Gorg|          And what do you say of doing injustice? Is the will only
46  Gorg|      will that prevent him from doing injustice, or must he have
47  Gorg|        will he also escape from doing injury? Must not the very
48  Gorg|         no airs or pretences of doing anything extraordinary,
49  Gorg|       or the currier; and in so doing, being such as he is, he
50  Gorg|        is just what you are now doing. You praise the men who
51  Gorg|     itself, but he is afraid of doing wrong. For to go to the