Dialogue

 1  Gorg|      Gorgias, what are the best? ‘Health first, beauty next, wealth
 2  Gorg|     realities; e.g. there is real health of body or soul, and the
 3  Gorg|    pleasure, they will ruin their health; if they are false or dishonest,
 4  Gorg|           have an equal chance of health and life, and the highest
 5  Gorg|          the goods of life, first health, beauty next, thirdly, as
 6  Gorg|          will answer, ‘for is not health the greatest good? What
 7  Gorg|     physician even in a matter of health?~GORGIAS: Yes, with the
 8  Gorg|          who appear to be in good health, and whom only a physician
 9  Gorg|           sight not to be in good health.~GORGIAS: True.~SOCRATES:
10  Gorg|           gives the appearance of health and not the reality?~GORGIAS:
11  Gorg|          come again, and cookery, health, and medicine would mingle
12  Gorg|          which is painful, or the health for the sake of which they
13  Gorg|        drink?~POLUS: Clearly, the health.~SOCRATES: And when men
14  Gorg|    Socrates.~SOCRATES: Wisdom and health and wealth and the like
15  Gorg|           or who never was out of health?~POLUS: Clearly he who was
16  Gorg|           he who was never out of health.~SOCRATES: Yes; for happiness
17  Gorg|        did not know the nature of health and bodily vigour; and if
18  Gorg|         to each other, then, like health and disease, they exclude
19  Gorg| ophthalmia, has he got rid of the health of his eyes too? Is the
20  Gorg|          that those which promote health, or any other bodily excellence,
21  Gorg|           I suppose that you mean health and strength?~SOCRATES:
22  Gorg|         of the body, whence comes health and every other bodily excellence:
23  Gorg|          who is in a bad state of health a quantity of the most delightful
24  Gorg|        SOCRATES: When a man is in health the physicians will generally
25  Gorg|     Socrates himself, has he good health? and was any one else ever
26  Gorg|           my boys, I did for your health,’ and then would there not