Dialogue

 1  Gorg|    Socrates too have taught the citizens better than to put him to
 2  Gorg|       has a real regard for the citizens. But where are the orators
 3  Gorg|        vice in the minds of his citizens. He is the physician who
 4  Gorg|        the city should make the citizens as good as possible. But
 5  Gorg|       did not Pericles make the citizens worse? For he gave them
 6  Gorg|    improve the character of the citizens. I have told you again and
 7  Gorg|    pandered to the vices of the citizens, and filled the city with
 8  Gorg|       fit of illness comes, the citizens who in like manner applauded
 9  Gorg|        that he has procured the citizens any pleasure, and if any
10  Gorg|         state, in which all the citizens have an equal chance of
11  Gorg|          the improvement of the citizens.’ He ministers to the weaker
12  Gorg|        treatment of freemen and citizens by physicians and of slaves
13  Gorg| senators in the council, or the citizens in the assembly, or at any
14  Gorg|      the least power of all the citizens.~POLUS: What! are they not
15  Gorg|     envy and admiration both of citizens and strangers? Is that the
16  Gorg|        they seek to improve the citizens by their speeches, or are
17  Gorg| improvement of the souls of the citizens, and strives to say what
18  Gorg|     justice in the souls of his citizens and take away injustice,
19  Gorg|       treatment of our city and citizens? Must we not try and make
20  Gorg|         about making any of the citizens better? Was there ever a
21  Gorg|      but the improvement of the citizens? Have we not already admitted
22  Gorg|       think that they were good citizens.~CALLICLES: I do.~SOCRATES:
23  Gorg|         them must have made the citizens better instead of worse?~
24  Gorg|     improvement of their fellow citizens, which is the prime object
25  Gorg|        State had good and noble citizens? and when I ask you who
26  Gorg|         the men who feasted the citizens and satisfied their desires,