Dialogue

 1  Gorg|       statesmen, past as well as present, are included in the class
 2  Gorg|          is ‘the only man of the present day who performs his public
 3  Gorg|       fellow-men is, that we may present our souls undefiled to the
 4  Gorg|   uncertainty in which we are at present. Let us follow in the way
 5  Gorg|        to haunt the world at the present day (compare Charmides).
 6  Gorg|        be, but of what is—of the present consequence of lowering
 7  Gorg|         especially needed in the present age. For as the world has
 8  Gorg|      whole. He lives not for the present, but for the future, and
 9  Gorg|        statesmen past as well as present, not excepting the greatest
10  Gorg|         best imaginable world at present, Plato here, as in the Phaedo
11  Gorg|   another life may not have been present to his mind at all. Do we
12  Gorg|          of circumstances, past, present, or to come. He who has
13  Gorg|       temper of mind has already present with him eternal life; he
14  Gorg|         the ideal of them may be present to us, and the remembrance
15  Gorg|         to the mind, and make it present to us. They have also a
16  Gorg|          born in this world. Our present life is the result of the
17  Gorg| questions, Gorgias, as we are at present doing, and reserve for another
18  Gorg|        or other of the young men present might desire to become your
19  Gorg| Chaerephon, although I have been present at many discussions, I doubt
20  Gorg|       then, the inference in the present case clearly is, that if
21  Gorg|      good because they have good present with them, as the beautiful
22  Gorg|        are those who have beauty present with them?~CALLICLES: Yes.~
23  Gorg|       were good because good was present with them, and the evil
24  Gorg|         these pleasures or goods present to those who rejoice—if
25  Gorg|          are good when goods are present with them?~CALLICLES: Yes.~
26  Gorg|         pain have evil or sorrow present with them?~CALLICLES: Yes.~
27  Gorg|     among the orators who are at present living.~SOCRATES: Well,
28  Gorg|         good when some virtue is present in us or them? That, Callicles,
29  Gorg|      have temperance and justice present with him and be happy, not
30  Gorg|        that this was true of our present statesmen, but not true
31  Gorg|         to be no better than our present ones; and therefore, if
32  Gorg|      were a whit superior to our present statesmen, although I do
33  Gorg|     death, which they possess at present: this power which they have
34  Gorg|       and I consider how I shall present my soul whole and undefiled
35  Gorg|       able to judge then. In our present condition we ought not to