Dialogue

 1  Gorg| Procrustean bed of a single idea. (Compare Introduction to the Phaedrus.)~
 2  Gorg|            double forms of speech (compare Gorg.; Symp.). At first
 3  Gorg|          should govern the weaker (compare Republic). Like other men
 4  Gorg|           as short as he pleases’ (compare Protag.). Callicles exhibits
 5  Gorg|        recoil upon his assailant. (Compare Republic, and the similar
 6  Gorg|            altercation they agree (compare Protag.), that Polus shall
 7  Gorg|         fact. Socrates has only to compare the lot of the successful
 8  Gorg|            of his writings, we may compare him with himself, and with
 9  Gorg|          world at the present day (compare Charmides). The defect of
10  Gorg|  definition of rhetoric (Philebus; compare Gorg.), as the art of persuasion,
11  Gorg|        hitherto provided for them (compare Swift’s notion that the
12  Gorg|          than to suffer injustice.~Compare the New Testament—~‘It is
13  Gorg|            to punish the offender (compare Republic). But they are
14  Gorg|          is the true retaliation. (Compare the obscure verse of Proverbs, ‘
15  Gorg|            the basis of morality. (Compare the following: ‘Now, and
16  Gorg|           the same high principle (compare Republic) which he shows
17  Gorg|            called by their names. (Compare Thucyd.)~Who is the true
18  Gorg|           all things for the best (compare Phaedo), but he indirectly
19  Gorg|          philosopher may be happy (compare Republic). It is observable
20  Gorg|          earth-born men (Republic; compare Laws), in which by the adaptation
21  Gorg|        pass from one to the other (compare for examples Psalms xviii.
22  Gorg|     half-inclined to believe them (compare Phaedrus). As in conversation
23  Gorg|          is of another sort—let us compare them, and see in what they
24  Gorg|           You see, Polus, when you compare the two kinds of refutations,
25  Gorg|      rhetoricians and potentates? (Compare Republic.)~POLUS: True.~
26  Gorg|           and is called injustice (compare Republic), whereas nature
27  Gorg|            of men, nothing worth. (Compare Republic.)~SOCRATES: There
28  Gorg|           soma) is our tomb (sema (compare Phaedr.)), and that the
29  Gorg|            a similar alternation? (Compare Republic.)~CALLICLES: Certainly
30  Gorg|         there will remain speech? (Compare Republic.)~CALLICLES: To
31  Gorg|        going about without a head (compare Laws); please then to go
32  Gorg|            this greatest of evils (compare Republic), in an unjust
33  Gorg|          for he cannot live well. (Compare Republic.)~And this is the
34  Gorg|          quite convinced by them. (Compare Symp.: 1 Alcib.)~SOCRATES:
35  Gorg|         them good—am I not right? (Compare Protag.)~CALLICLES: Yes.~
36  Gorg|           of those who have power (compare Republic). And yet in that