Dialogue

 1  Gorg|      that to do is worse than to suffer evil; and (2) that when
 2  Gorg|          more honourable than to suffer injustice. Though he is
 3  Gorg|          pitied; it is better to suffer than to do injustice. He
 4  Gorg|       man to do is worse than to suffer evil.~Polus, though he will
 5  Gorg|       evils from which a man may suffer, and which affect him in
 6  Gorg|         led him to admit that to suffer is more honourable than
 7  Gorg|       more dishonourable than to suffer wrong. And as they are the
 8  Gorg|          filling them, and would suffer extreme misery if he desisted.
 9  Gorg|        do wrong is worse than to suffer wrong, and Gorgias was right
10  Gorg|        be stricken—to do than to suffer. What I said then is now
11  Gorg|        greatest of evils, and to suffer wrong is the next greatest
12  Gorg|     Under his protection he will suffer no evil, but will he also
13  Gorg|         Alcibiades, and you will suffer for the misdeeds of your
14  Gorg|          to do is better than to suffer evil. A man should study
15  Gorg|         improvement. They are to suffer because they have sinned;
16  Gorg|       greater evil to do than to suffer injustice.~Compare the New
17  Gorg|      Testament—~‘It is better to suffer for well doing than for
18  Gorg|          evil. The righteous may suffer or die, but they have their
19  Gorg|         Thesis:—~It is better to suffer for wrong doing than not
20  Gorg|          wrong doing than not to suffer.~There might have been a
21  Gorg|          atrocious crimes; these suffer everlastingly. And there
22  Gorg|     POLUS: Then would you rather suffer than do injustice?~SOCRATES:
23  Gorg|     between them, I would rather suffer than do.~POLUS: Then you
24  Gorg|      that to do is worse than to suffer injustice?~POLUS: Exactly
25  Gorg|       seen his wife and children suffer the like, is at last impaled
26  Gorg|        is a greater evil than to suffer injustice: and not to be
27  Gorg|       you yourself, for example, suffer rather than do injustice?~
28  Gorg|     worst?—to do injustice or to suffer?~POLUS: I should say that
29  Gorg| consequent pain: Do the injurers suffer more than the injured?~POLUS:
30  Gorg|         more disgraceful than to suffer?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: And
31  Gorg|        man, would rather do than suffer injustice; for to do injustice
32  Gorg|      evils to a guilty man is to suffer punishment, as you supposed,
33  Gorg|  Consider:—You would say that to suffer punishment is another name
34  Gorg|         And will not the patient suffer that which the agent does,
35  Gorg|   SOCRATES: And further, that to suffer punishment is the way to
36  Gorg|       True.~SOCRATES: And not to suffer, is to perpetuate the evil?~
37  Gorg|       wrong, for he will thereby suffer great evil?~POLUS: True.~
38  Gorg|       that so the wrong-doer may suffer and be made whole; and he
39  Gorg|        he should escape, and not suffer punishment: if he has stolen
40  Gorg|       more dishonourable than to suffer injustice, for this was
41  Gorg|        by the rule of nature, to suffer injustice is the greater
42  Gorg|         more disgraceful than to suffer injustice?—is that so or
43  Gorg|         more disgraceful than to suffer injustice, and that justice
44  Gorg|      when he is sick they hardly suffer him to satisfy his desires
45  Gorg|         must be done and he must suffer punishment, if he would
46  Gorg|         more disgraceful than to suffer, is in that degree worse;
47  Gorg|   injustice is a greater, and to suffer injustice a lesser evil—
48  Gorg|       Athenian State any man may suffer anything. And if I am brought
49  Gorg|       more to be avoided than to suffer injustice, and that the