Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     should have the game out. He knows by experience that rhetoric
 2  Gorg|         else, will admit that he knows justice (how can he do otherwise
 3  Gorg|      king to be happy, unless he knows his mental and moral condition.
 4  Gorg|         vein of reflection. ‘Who knows,’ as Euripides says, ‘whether
 5  Gorg| instantly detects him, though he knows not who he is; he sees the
 6  Gorg|         force of mind; he hardly knows where to begin in the search
 7  Gorg|  posthumous fame, but because he knows that the result of his life
 8  Gorg|       the appointed time, for he knows that human life, ‘if not
 9  Gorg|          many great purposes. He knows, too, that the work will
10  Gorg|          coming struggle. But he knows also that there are permanent
11  Gorg|        the winds blow, though he knows not beforehand the hour
12  Gorg|     cannot do for themselves. He knows that if he does too much
13  Gorg|      mischievously adds, ‘Nobody knows what they did,’ and therefore
14  Gorg|     between them. A great writer knows how to strike both these
15  Gorg|        was the art which Gorgias knows, you praised it as if you
16  Gorg|        greater power than he who knows?~GORGIAS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
17  Gorg|   ignorant of what the physician knows.~GORGIAS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
18  Gorg|    things than some one else who knows? Or must the pupil know
19  Gorg|       rhetoric at all, unless he knows the truth of these things
20  Gorg|       claim to know what Gorgias knows—would you not?~POLUS: Yes.~
21  Gorg|        bold and ready wit, which knows how to manage mankind: this
22  Gorg|       been right in saying,~‘Who knows if life be not death and
23  Gorg|  allowing them to be drowned. He knows that they are just the same
24  Gorg|        living a certain time?—he knows, as women say, that no man
25  Gorg|          a soul of the bad kind, knows nothing about him, neither
26  Gorg|          who his parents are; he knows only that he has got hold