Dialogue

 1  Gorg|        improved. There are three evils from which a man may suffer,
 2  Gorg|      three arts which heal these evils—trading, medicine, justice—
 3  Gorg|         wrong is the greatest of evils, and to suffer wrong is
 4  Gorg|          way the greatest of all evils will befall him. ‘But this
 5  Gorg|         offences is the worst of evils. In proof of which I will
 6  Gorg|        not a small part of human evils which kings and governments
 7  Gorg|      indirectly implies that the evils of this life will be corrected
 8  Gorg|       goods, and their opposites evils?~POLUS: I should.~SOCRATES:
 9  Gorg|     injustice is the greatest of evils.~POLUS: But is it the greatest?
10  Gorg|          Whether the greatest of evils to a guilty man is to suffer
11  Gorg|          out three corresponding evils—injustice, disease, poverty?~
12  Gorg|       SOCRATES: And which of the evils is the most disgraceful?—
13  Gorg|       evil of the soul is of all evils the most disgraceful; and
14  Gorg|          will be the greatest of evils?~POLUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then
15  Gorg|        soul, are the greatest of evils?~POLUS: That is evident.~
16  Gorg|          in being delivered from evils, but in never having had
17  Gorg| deliverance from the greatest of evils, which is vice?~POLUS: True.~
18  Gorg|      shown to be the greatest of evils.~POLUS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
19  Gorg|    released from the greatest of evils; they provide themselves
20  Gorg|    injustice, is the greatest of evils?~POLUS: That is quite clear.~
21  Gorg|      second only in the scale of evils; but to do wrong and not
22  Gorg|          is not the worst of all evils; or, if you leave her word
23  Gorg|   pleasures were goods and pains evils?~CALLICLES: Yes, I remember.~
24  Gorg|     injustice is the greatest of evils to the doer of injustice,
25  Gorg|    greater than this greatest of evils (compare Republic), in an
26  Gorg|      avert the greatest of human evils? And will not the worst
27  Gorg|   greatest evil; and so of other evils. As is the greatness of
28  Gorg|         that there are these two evils, the doing injustice and
29  Gorg|        the last and worst of all evils. And in proof of what I