Dialogue

 1  Gorg| their elders, he will not be able to make them understand
 2  Gorg|      desire in life is to be able to meet death. And I exhort
 3  Gorg|      His meaning we shall be able to illustrate best by parallel
 4  Gorg|   are we to say that you are able to make other men rhetoricians?~
 5  Gorg|   And yet rhetoric makes men able to speak?~GORGIAS: Yes.~
 6  Gorg|    mentioning, also make men able to understand and speak
 7  Gorg| himself, but for you who are able to speak and to persuade
 8  Gorg|    and even; and we shall be able to show that all the other
 9  Gorg| gratification.~POLUS: And if able to gratify others, must
10  Gorg|     by this time you will be able to follow)~as tiring : gymnastic :
11  Gorg|    equal length; but if I am able to understand you, let me
12  Gorg|    injustice? If you are not able to answer at once, ask yourself
13  Gorg|    of men, and those who are able to get the better of them,
14  Gorg|   wise, but also valiant and able to carry out their designs,
15  Gorg| desires about him, and to be able to live happily in the gratification
16  Gorg|    so is the honour of being able to avert them in their several
17  Gorg|    the disgrace of not being able to avert them. Am I not
18  Gorg|    virtue, and will never be able to be perfectly friendly
19  Gorg|    unassuming way. For he is able to reflect and is aware
20  Gorg|   are living now, and better able to gratify the wishes of
21  Gorg|      pupils, if he be really able to make them good—am I not
22  Gorg|  that the physician would be able to reply when he found himself
23  Gorg|    court. For I shall not be able to rehearse to the people
24  Gorg|    say, that you will not be able to help yourself when the
25  Gorg|   Greeks of our day, are not able to show that we ought to
26  Gorg|       for we shall be better able to judge then. In our present