Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        things are true, then, as he says with real emotion, the foundations
 2  Gorg|              And now, as he himself says, we will ‘resume the argument
 3  Gorg|            to detect; of course, he says, the rhetorician, like every
 4  Gorg|            is the art of Rhetoric?’ says Polus. Not an art at all,
 5  Gorg|            yes,’ but not by nature, says Callicles. And Socrates
 6  Gorg|           of nature. For convention says that ‘injustice is dishonourable,’
 7  Gorg|          dishonourable,’ but nature says that ‘might is right.’ And
 8  Gorg|        justice shines forth. Pindar says, ‘Law, the king of all,
 9  Gorg|            Every man,’ as Euripides says, ‘is fondest of that in
10  Gorg|             I say to you, as Zethus says to Amphion in the play,
11  Gorg|       nothing are not happy. ‘Why,’ says Callicles, ‘if they were,
12  Gorg|            Who knows,’ as Euripides says, ‘whether life may not be
13  Gorg|          his own questions. ‘Then,’ says Socrates, ‘one man must
14  Gorg|             punished. Though, as he says in the Phaedo, no man of
15  Gorg|             authority of Homer, who says that Odysseus saw Minos
16  Gorg|     disappointed. Then, as Socrates says, the cry of ingratitude
17  Gorg|            wise man, as the proverb says, is late for a fray, but
18  Gorg|           as the writer of the song says, wealth honestly obtained.~
19  Gorg|          are apt to arise —somebody says that another has not spoken
20  Gorg|             refute any one else who says what is not true, and quite
21  Gorg|            refutation,—when any one says anything, instead of refuting
22  Gorg|             for the son of Cleinias says one thing to-day and another
23  Gorg|        sentiment of Pindar, when he says in his poem, that~‘Law is
24  Gorg|             immortals;’~this, as he says,~‘Makes might to be right,
25  Gorg|       philosophy. For, as Euripides says,~‘Every man shines in that
26  Gorg| market-place, in which, as the poet says, men become distinguished;
27  Gorg|             these topics, or he who says without any qualification
28  Gorg|           Callicles, the Acharnian, says that pleasure and good are
29  Gorg|          Will not the good man, who says whatever he says with a
30  Gorg|           man, who says whatever he says with a view to the best,
31  Gorg|           therefore, if my opponent says anything which is of force,
32  Gorg|           just men gentle, as Homer says?—or are you of another mind?~
33  Gorg|          advantages. And if any one says that I corrupt young men,