Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        generalizes the bad side of human nature, and has easily brought
 2  Gorg| distinctions suited to his view of human life. He has a good will
 3  Gorg|           favourites. His ideal of human character is a man of great
 4  Gorg|           questions’ which agitate human life ‘as the principle which
 5  Gorg|           the best and greatest of human things.’ But tell me, Gorgias,
 6  Gorg|    sentiment in the better part of human nature.~The idealism of
 7  Gorg|         deep into the heart of the human race. It is a similar picture
 8  Gorg|            the actual condition of human things the wise and good
 9  Gorg|          everlasting punishment of human beings depend on a brief
10  Gorg|         the ordinary conditions of human life. The greatest statesmen
11  Gorg|       transferred to the sphere of human conduct. There is some degree
12  Gorg|       truth, or the improvement of human life, are called flatteries.
13  Gorg|     minister to the weaker side of human nature. That poetry is akin
14  Gorg|      Because politics, and perhaps human life generally, are of a
15  Gorg|           have been a condition of human life in which the penalty
16  Gorg|          same principle applies to human actions generally. Not to
17  Gorg|         study of one department of human knowledge to the exclusion
18  Gorg|            right. The sophistry of human nature is far more subtle
19  Gorg|            time, for he knows that human life, ‘if not long in comparison
20  Gorg|           also a deeper current of human affairs in which he is borne
21  Gorg|          It is not a small part of human evils which kings and governments
22  Gorg|          increase our knowledge of human nature. There have been
23  Gorg|            not be effected for the human race by a better use of
24  Gorg|    ministers to the weaker side of human nature (Republic); he idealizes
25  Gorg|       conception of God and of the human soul, yet the ideal of them
26  Gorg|           relate to the destiny of human souls in a future life.
27  Gorg|             but containing under a human skin a lion and a many-headed
28  Gorg|           that the two extremes of human character are rarely met
29  Gorg|     personages are associated with human beings: they are also garnished
30  Gorg|          recall the experiences of human life. It will be noticed
31  Gorg|            an element of chance in human life with which it is sometimes
32  Gorg|          has reached the limits of human knowledge; or, to borrow
33  Gorg|         but if we survey the whole human race, it has been as influential
34  Gorg|         motion and the reversal of human life is of course verbal
35  Gorg|          order of the world and of human life is once more reversed,
36  Gorg|         and the difference between human and divine government. He
37  Gorg|          Socrates, and the best of human things.~SOCRATES: That again,
38  Gorg|           the greatest and best of human things? I dare say that
39  Gorg|         when you say that which no human being will allow? Ask the
40  Gorg|          true, is not the whole of human life turned upside down;
41  Gorg|          philosophy is the ruin of human life. Even if a man has
42  Gorg|          desires of mankind and of human character in general. And
43  Gorg|   persevere, that the true rule of human life may become manifest.
44  Gorg|        suppose that I or any other human being denies that some pleasures
45  Gorg|           arguing about the way of human life; and to a man who has
46  Gorg|            same may be said of the human body?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
47  Gorg|         will avert the greatest of human evils? And will not the
48  Gorg|            to think that we or any human being should be so silly