Dialogue

 1  Gorg|    maintain this? ‘Yes, for the sake of consistency, he will.’
 2  Gorg|   things should be done for the sake of the good.~Callicles assents
 3  Gorg|        is to be pursued for the sake of the good, and the good
 4  Gorg|   persecuted for righteousness’ sake.’—Matt.~The words of Socrates
 5  Gorg|       telling you? Not for your sake, but in order that the argument
 6  Gorg|       that I speak, not for the sake of discovering the truth,
 7  Gorg|        that further end for the sake of which they do a thing?
 8  Gorg|  painful, or the health for the sake of which they drink?~POLUS:
 9  Gorg|         have the wealth for the sake of which they go on a voyage.~
10  Gorg|      man does something for the sake of something else, he wills
11  Gorg|       he does, but that for the sake of which he does it.~POLUS:
12  Gorg| indifferent things done for the sake of the good, or the good
13  Gorg|       good, or the good for the sake of the indifferent?~POLUS:
14  Gorg|         the indifferent for the sake of the good.~SOCRATES: When
15  Gorg|         we walk we walk for the sake of the good, and under the
16  Gorg|        we stand equally for the sake of the good?~POLUS: Yes.~
17  Gorg|    these things do them for the sake of the good?~POLUS: Yes.~
18  Gorg|         doing something for the sake of something else, we do
19  Gorg|        that other thing for the sake of which we do them?~POLUS:
20  Gorg|  CALLICLES: Well, then, for the sake of consistency, I will say
21  Gorg|  actions are to be done for the sake of the good;—and will you
22  Gorg|  actions are to be done for the sake of the good, and not the
23  Gorg|        and not the good for the sake of them?—will you add a
24  Gorg|         is to be sought for the sake of that which is good, and
25  Gorg|      that which is good for the sake of pleasure?~CALLICLES:
26  Gorg|         invented wholly for the sake of pleasure?~CALLICLES:
27  Gorg|  pleasant to be pursued for the sake of the good? or the good
28  Gorg|       good? or the good for the sake of the pleasant? The pleasant
29  Gorg|        is to be pursued for the sake of the good. And that is
30  Gorg|           All this I do for the sake of justice, and with a view