Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     self-indulgence are virtue and happiness; all the rest is mere talk.’~
 2  Gorg|          as I admit, is my idea of happiness.’ And to be itching and
 3  Gorg|         not deny that there may be happiness even in that.’ And to indulge
 4  Gorg|          goodness and therefore of happiness, and the intemperate whom
 5  Gorg| self-control is the true secret of happiness, then the paradox is true
 6  Gorg|            of the consciousness of happiness, but of the idea of happiness.
 7  Gorg|      happiness, but of the idea of happiness. When a martyr dies in a
 8  Gorg|         making no reference to the happiness of others, as affected by
 9  Gorg|          affected by him.’ But the happiness of others or of mankind,
10  Gorg|           as Plato’s conception of happiness. For the greatest happiness
11  Gorg|        happiness. For the greatest happiness of the greatest number may
12  Gorg|        endeavours to show that his happiness would be assured here in
13  Gorg|    afterthought, when the superior happiness of the just has been established
14  Gorg|        subjective consciousness of happiness, that would have been found
15  Gorg|     Gorgias, but the conception of happiness is different in the two
16  Gorg|          regard to consequences is happiness. From this elevation or
17  Gorg|          POLUS: What! and does all happiness consist in this?~SOCRATES:
18  Gorg|         that was not his notion of happiness; but not long afterwards
19  Gorg|             to know or not to know happiness and misery—that is the chief
20  Gorg|         health.~SOCRATES: Yes; for happiness surely does not consist
21  Gorg|        first place in the scale of happiness who has never had vice in
22  Gorg|         with means, are virtue and happiness—all the rest is a mere bauble,
23  Gorg|      scratching, in your notion of happiness?~CALLICLES: What a strange
24  Gorg|         have and not have good and happiness, and their opposites, evil
25  Gorg|         and dwell there in perfect happiness out of the reach of evil;