Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     the digressions have the greater interest. Yet in the most
 2  Gorg|   those of the good, or even greater. Not merely rhetoricians,
 3  Gorg|   the bad man or coward in a greater degree. Therefore the bad
 4  Gorg|     thrown out when he gains greater experience and skill. The
 5  Gorg|       First Thesis:—~It is a greater evil to do than to suffer
 6  Gorg|    Ricardo. These during the greater part of their lives occupied
 7  Gorg|     future may return to his greater calling of the prophet or
 8  Gorg|      of them. Three of these greater myths, namely those contained
 9  Gorg|   this, nor any of the three greater myths of Plato, nor perhaps
10  Gorg|     the two others. It has a greater verisimilitude than they
11  Gorg|      in the Phaedrus is even greater than the myths which have
12  Gorg| descriptions of Plato have a greater life and reality than is
13  Gorg|   them the verbal element is greater—they depend wholly on words
14  Gorg|      the greatest good? What greater good can men have, Socrates?’
15  Gorg|     one else can produce any greater good than wealth.’ Well,
16  Gorg|      that his art produces a greater good than yours. And then
17  Gorg|       GORGIAS: What is there greater than the word which persuades
18  Gorg|      I hold that this is the greater gain of the two, just as
19  Gorg|     two, just as the gain is greater of being cured of a very
20  Gorg|    the rhetorician will have greater powers of persuasion than
21  Gorg|   cannot be supposed to have greater powers of persuasion.~GORGIAS:
22  Gorg|      physician, he will have greater power than he who knows?~
23  Gorg|    not suffering injustice a greater evil?~SOCRATES: Certainly
24  Gorg|     believe, that to do is a greater evil than to suffer injustice:
25  Gorg|   SOCRATES: And which is the greater disgrace?—Answer.~POLUS:
26  Gorg|     To do.~SOCRATES: And the greater disgrace is the greater
27  Gorg|      greater disgrace is the greater evil?~POLUS: Certainly not.~
28  Gorg|      and will therefore be a greater evil than suffering injustice?~
29  Gorg|       And would you prefer a greater evil or a greater dishonour
30  Gorg|   prefer a greater evil or a greater dishonour to a less one?
31  Gorg| Would any other man prefer a greater to a less evil?~POLUS: No,
32  Gorg|   for to do injustice is the greater evil of the two.~POLUS:
33  Gorg|   escape punishment is not a greater evil, as I supposed. Consider:—
34  Gorg|     s estate, do you see any greater evil than poverty?~POLUS:
35  Gorg|  poverty?~POLUS: There is no greater evil.~SOCRATES: Again, in
36  Gorg|      suffer injustice is the greater disgrace because the greater
37  Gorg| greater disgrace because the greater evil; but conventionally,
38  Gorg|    the more you pour in, the greater the waste; and the holes
39  Gorg|   yet there is if possible a greater than this greatest of evils (
40  Gorg|    that to do injustice is a greater, and to suffer injustice
41  Gorg|      tell you of another and greater art, the art of the pilot,
42  Gorg|      the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly