Dialogue

 1  Gorg| existence of a universal art of flattery or simulation having several
 2  Gorg|         the highest species. To flattery is opposed the true and
 3  Gorg|     which there will be no more flattery or disguise, and no further
 4  Gorg|        that he should avoid all flattery, whether of himself or of
 5  Gorg|      whole, which may be termed flattery, is the reply. ‘But what
 6  Gorg|   species of oratory; the one a flattery, another which has a real
 7  Gorg|      become good, and avoid all flattery, whether of the many or
 8  Gorg|          in Plato’s language, a flattery, a sophistry, or sham, in
 9  Gorg|        I sum up under the word ‘flattery’; and it appears to me to
10  Gorg|     been informed, what part of flattery is rhetoric: he did not
11  Gorg|       will ask me, What part of flattery is rhetoric?~POLUS: I will
12  Gorg|        you answer? What part of flattery is rhetoric?~SOCRATES: Will
13  Gorg|         for their highest good; flattery knowing, or rather guessing
14  Gorg|    would be starved to death. A flattery I deem this to be and of
15  Gorg|        then, I maintain to be a flattery which takes the form of
16  Gorg|    tiring, in like manner, is a flattery which takes the form of
17  Gorg|      you think that rhetoric is flattery?~SOCRATES: Nay, I said a
18  Gorg| SOCRATES: Nay, I said a part of flattery; if at your age, Polus,
19  Gorg|    rhetoric is an art and not a flattery—and so you will have refuted
20  Gorg|      sort of thing which I term flattery, whether concerned with
21  Gorg|     were just now describing as flattery?~CALLICLES: Quite true.~
22  Gorg|         as having the nature of flattery.~CALLICLES: Quite true.~
23  Gorg|       sorts; one, which is mere flattery and disgraceful declamation;
24  Gorg|       in view was just a vulgar flattery:—was not that another of
25  Gorg|      true art of rhetoric or of flattery, or they would not have
26  Gorg|     because I have no powers of flattery or rhetoric, I am very sure
27  Gorg|        that he should avoid all flattery of himself as well as of