Dialogue

 1  Gorg|           morality, or regard for public opinion, enables Socrates
 2  Gorg|         away by the great tide of public opinion. Socrates approaches
 3  Gorg|      present day who performs his public duties at all.’ The two
 4  Gorg|          Socrates is and is not a public man. Not in the ordinary
 5  Gorg|         rejoins, that he is not a public man, and (referring to his
 6  Gorg|         But who would undertake a public building, if he had never
 7  Gorg|       Callicles is about to enter public life, should we not examine
 8  Gorg|       right, without reference to public opinion or to consequences.
 9  Gorg|        the standard of utility or public opinion, but merely to point
10  Gorg|         or any other influence of public opinion, have been willing
11  Gorg|           irony and antagonism to public opinion, the Gorgias most
12  Gorg|      disguises which rhetoric and public opinion have hitherto provided
13  Gorg|   individual cannot easily change public opinion; but he can be true
14  Gorg|          supported and watched by public opinion. And on some fitting
15  Gorg|       better (as well as a worse) public opinion of which he seeks
16  Gorg|          world; he must enlighten public opinion; he must accustom
17  Gorg|          space in the eyes of the public. They were private persons;
18  Gorg|         those who are more in the public eye. They have the promise
19  Gorg|      their other vessels, whether public or private— but can you
20  Gorg|     SOCRATES: O Polus, I am not a public man, and only last year,
21  Gorg|           man, whether private or public, and utterly ignorant of
22  Gorg|         rhetoric, and engaging in public affairs, according to the
23  Gorg|          pleasure, forgetting the public good in the thought of their
24  Gorg|           have a real care of the public in what they say, while
25  Gorg|       intending to set about some public business, and were advising
26  Gorg| proceeding to the construction of public works. But if we had no
27  Gorg|       ridiculous in us to attempt public works, or to advise one
28  Gorg|         already beginning to be a public character, and are admonishing
29  Gorg|        before you came forward in public. Why will you not answer?~
30  Gorg|        that such is the duty of a public man? Nay, we have surely
31  Gorg|       them, whether in private or public, it is useless for me to
32  Gorg|          kings and potentates and public men, for they are the authors
33  Gorg|      above all things, as well in public as in private life; and