Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        part of Socrates. He must speak, for philosophy will not
 2  Gorg|          he is not too modest to speak out (of this he has already
 3  Gorg|    character. But Socrates would speak to them, not of what will
 4  Gorg|          must be made. They must speak to themselves; they must
 5  Gorg|         any one man. Few persons speak freely from their own natures,
 6  Gorg|          men. He has not only to speak of themes above the level
 7  Gorg|         of ordinary life, but to speak of them in a deeper and
 8  Gorg|         would not have wished to speak or act otherwise than he
 9  Gorg| different ways in which the laws speak to men (Laws). There also
10  Gorg|       rhetoric makes men able to speak?~GORGIAS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
11  Gorg| understand that about which they speak?~GORGIAS: Of course.~SOCRATES:
12  Gorg|       men able to understand and speak about the sick?~GORGIAS:
13  Gorg|          for you who are able to speak and to persuade the multitude.~
14  Gorg|          persuasion of which you speak, and which is given by rhetoric;
15  Gorg|         chance; but he who could speak would be chosen if he wished;
16  Gorg|       himself chosen, for he can speak more persuasively to the
17  Gorg|          for the rhetorician can speak against all men and upon
18  Gorg|          against you, and that I speak, not for the sake of discovering
19  Gorg|      yours, I hope that you will speak at equal length; but if
20  Gorg|           SOCRATES: And I should speak the truth; for I do not
21  Gorg|        question of you: When you speak of beautiful things, such
22  Gorg|    father the Scythians? (not to speak of numberless other examples).
23  Gorg|          who is not of an age to speak plainly, lisping at his
24  Gorg|       against them and refuse to speak of their pleasant vices,
25  Gorg|         with a view to the best, speak with a reference to some
26  Gorg|          refute me, for I do not speak from any knowledge of what
27  Gorg|          Pericles first began to speak in the assembly, the Athenians
28  Gorg|         Yes, if I seem to you to speak the truth.~CALLICLES: Granted
29  Gorg|       you are the man who cannot speak unless there is some one
30  Gorg|          flatterer of the State? Speak out, my good friend, freely
31  Gorg|         the dangers of which you speak, he will be a villain who
32  Gorg|          Now, seeing that when I speak my words are not uttered
33  Gorg|   perplex their minds, or that I speak evil of old men, and use
34  Gorg|         true tale, for I mean to speak the truth. Homer tells us (