Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        doing wrong is worse than suffering, and that a man should be
 2  Gorg|          doing cannot exceed the suffering of evil in pain, and therefore
 3  Gorg|       worse or more hurtful than suffering.~There remains the other
 4  Gorg|           or that their physical suffering is always compensated by
 5  Gorg|        ethics.~The idealizing of suffering is one of the conceptions
 6  Gorg|          is a similar picture of suffering goodness which Plato desires
 7  Gorg|        is partial only, and that suffering, instead of improving men,
 8  Gorg|          distinguish between the suffering which improves and the suffering
 9  Gorg| suffering which improves and the suffering which only punishes and
10  Gorg|       young, and been saved from suffering afterwards. But is not the
11  Gorg|     their own evil deeds. To any suffering which they have deserved,
12  Gorg|          it the greatest? Is not suffering injustice a greater evil?~
13  Gorg|         POLUS: I should say that suffering was worst.~SOCRATES: And
14  Gorg|        now made, about doing and suffering wrong? Did you not say,
15  Gorg|     wrong? Did you not say, that suffering wrong was more evil, and
16  Gorg|         is more disgraceful than suffering, the more disgraceful must
17  Gorg|         of injustice exceeds the suffering in the consequent pain:
18  Gorg| therefore be a greater evil than suffering injustice?~POLUS: Clearly.~
19  Gorg|     agent does, and will not the suffering have the quality of the
20  Gorg|          True.~SOCRATES: And the suffering to him who is stricken is
21  Gorg|        whether being punished is suffering or acting?~POLUS: Suffering,
22  Gorg|      suffering or acting?~POLUS: Suffering, Socrates; there can be
23  Gorg|     doubt of that.~SOCRATES: And suffering implies an agent?~POLUS:
24  Gorg|       discussion about doing and suffering injustice. When Polus was
25  Gorg|        more disgraceful. For the suffering of injustice is not the
26  Gorg|       with him and be happy, not suffering his lusts to be unrestrained,
27  Gorg|  Republic), in an unjust man not suffering retribution, what is that
28  Gorg|          doing injustice and the suffering injustice—and we affirm
29  Gorg|       doing and the other of not suffering injustice? must he have
30  Gorg|         art will protect us from suffering injustice, if not wholly,
31  Gorg|     becoming a great man and not suffering injury?~CALLICLES: Very
32  Gorg|          in another, by pain and suffering; for there is no other way
33  Gorg|         whom he has described as suffering everlasting punishment in
34  Gorg|     person who was a villain, as suffering everlasting punishment,