Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     contained in it, that doing wrong is worse than suffering,
 2  Gorg|     prevent him from ever doing wrong. Polus is naturally exasperated
 3  Gorg|    dishonourable than to suffer wrong. And as they are the superior
 4  Gorg| punishment, but if he have done wrong he must endure punishment.
 5  Gorg|        and excess. But if he be wrong in this, and if self-control
 6  Gorg|      right in saying that to do wrong is worse than to suffer
 7  Gorg|         is worse than to suffer wrong, and Gorgias was right in
 8  Gorg|        a just man. And you were wrong in taunting me with my defenceless
 9  Gorg|        not be ridiculous. To do wrong is the greatest of evils,
10  Gorg|         of evils, and to suffer wrong is the next greatest evil.
11  Gorg|        to have said or done any wrong to himself or others. If
12  Gorg|        exposed to every sort of wrong and obloquy.~Plato, like
13  Gorg|      actions which are right or wrong in themselves. This is the
14  Gorg|         is better to suffer for wrong doing than not to suffer.~
15  Gorg|      apt to imagine a right and wrong apart from consequences;
16  Gorg|         if the pugilist makes a wrong use of his pugilistic art;
17  Gorg|      prove that many men who do wrong are happy.~SOCRATES: What
18  Gorg|       about doing and suffering wrong? Did you not say, that suffering
19  Gorg|         not say, that suffering wrong was more evil, and doing
20  Gorg|        was more evil, and doing wrong more disgraceful?~POLUS:
21  Gorg|        SOCRATES: Then, if doing wrong is more disgraceful than
22  Gorg|    justly corrected when you do wrong?~POLUS: I should.~SOCRATES:
23  Gorg|     POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: To do wrong, then, is second only in
24  Gorg|       scale of evils; but to do wrong and not to be punished,
25  Gorg|     other who like him has done wrong and has not been punished,
26  Gorg|     guard himself against doing wrong, for he will thereby suffer
27  Gorg|       about whom he cares, does wrong, he ought of his own accord
28  Gorg|        friends who may be doing wrong; he should bring to light
29  Gorg|     declaring that you had done wrong when you had done no wrong,
30  Gorg|      wrong when you had done no wrong, you must allow that you
31  Gorg|      that you seem to have been wrong in your former assertion,
32  Gorg|          Then we are both doing wrong. Still, my dear friend,
33  Gorg|       friend if he did anything wrong, and that to this end he
34  Gorg|         or in any way at all to wrong me and mine, is far more
35  Gorg|         evil to the doer of the wrong than to me who am the sufferer.
36  Gorg|     conclusion that no one does wrong voluntarily, but that all
37  Gorg|    voluntarily, but that all do wrong against their will?~CALLICLES:
38  Gorg|   rather contrive to do as much wrong as possible, and not be
39  Gorg|     indignation at the supposed wrong which is done to them; ‘
40  Gorg|     never said or done anything wrong, either in respect of gods
41  Gorg|       but he is afraid of doing wrong. For to go to the world
42  Gorg|    souls found their way to the wrong places. Zeus said: ‘I shall
43  Gorg|      there is great power to do wrong, to live and to die justly
44  Gorg|      that when any one has been wrong in anything, he is to be