Dialogue

 1  Gorg|      meaning of Archelaus being miserable, or of rhetoric being only
 2  Gorg|        happy if he escapes, and miserable if he suffers punishment;
 3  Gorg|        Socrates thinks him less miserable if he suffers than if he
 4  Gorg|     both criminal they are both miserable, but that the unpunished
 5  Gorg|      the unpunished is the more miserable of the two. At this Polus
 6  Gorg|      wise and good are weak and miserable; such an one is like a man
 7  Gorg|        always will be, the most miserable of men. The greatest consequences
 8  Gorg|       think that he is happy or miserable?~SOCRATES: I cannot say,
 9  Gorg|         the unjust and evil are miserable.~POLUS: Then, according
10  Gorg| doctrine, the said Archelaus is miserable?~SOCRATES: Yes, my friend,
11  Gorg|       But now he is unspeakably miserable, for he has been guilty
12  Gorg| discovered that he was the most miserable of all men, and was very
13  Gorg|         supposed to be the most miserable and not the happiest of
14  Gorg|       that case he will be most miserable.~SOCRATES: On the other
15  Gorg|       doer of unjust actions is miserable in any case,—more miserable,
16  Gorg|     miserable in any case,—more miserable, however, if he be not punished
17  Gorg|      with retribution, and less miserable if he be punished and meets
18  Gorg|        also that the wicked are miserable, and you refuted me?~POLUS:
19  Gorg|        I affirm that he is most miserable, and that those who are
20  Gorg|       who are punished are less miserable—are you going to refute
21  Gorg|    becomes a tyrant is the more miserable of the two. Do you laugh,
22  Gorg|       which of them is the most miserable?~POLUS: Clearly he who is
23  Gorg|        not knowing how far more miserable a companion a diseased soul
24  Gorg|       and ought to be, the most miserable of all men; and that the
25  Gorg|       doer of injustice is more miserable than the sufferer; and he
26  Gorg|        escapes punishment, more miserable than he who suffers.—Was
27  Gorg|        him?—must not he be in a miserable plight whom the reputation
28  Gorg|      leaky persons are the most miserable, and that they pour water
29  Gorg| catamite is not terrible, foul, miserable? Or would you venture to
30  Gorg|         evil man who does evil, miserable: now this latter is he whom
31  Gorg|         and temperance, and the miserable miserable by the possession
32  Gorg|   temperance, and the miserable miserable by the possession of vice,
33  Gorg|   likely may be brought by some miserable and mean person.~SOCRATES: