Dialogue

 1  Gorg| scandalized that the legitimate consequences of his own argument should
 2  Gorg|        or later entail the same consequences on him. He cannot be a private
 3  Gorg|         to public opinion or to consequences. And we regard them as happy
 4  Gorg|         be pushed to unpleasant consequences. Nor can Plato in the Gorgias
 5  Gorg|        independently of remoter consequences.~(3) Plato’s theory of punishment
 6  Gorg|        multitude, regardless of consequences, will probably share the
 7  Gorg|  miserable of men. The greatest consequences for good or for evil cannot
 8  Gorg|      occasionally speaks of the consequences of their actions:—if they
 9  Gorg|         part hidden from us the consequences of our actions, and we can
10  Gorg|         concealing from him the consequences of his own actions, until
11  Gorg|         to be for our good. The consequences may be inevitable, for they
12  Gorg|        All actions of which the consequences are not weighed and foreseen,
13  Gorg|        The contemplation of the consequences of actions, and the ignorance
14  Gorg|      right and wrong apart from consequences; while a few, on the other
15  Gorg|  resolve them wholly into their consequences. But Socrates, or Plato
16  Gorg|        milder, and the terrible consequences which Plato foretells no
17  Gorg|    action and without regard to consequences is happiness. From this
18  Gorg|        or shall we draw out the consequences in form?~POLUS: If you please.~
19  Gorg| consider how you would reply if consequences are pressed upon you, especially
20  Gorg|     true, then the disagreeable consequences which have been darkly intimated
21  Gorg|       granted, what will be the consequences? All the consequences which
22  Gorg|       the consequences? All the consequences which I drew before, Callicles,
23  Gorg|      use his rhetoric—all those consequences are true. And that which
24  Gorg|          For if you refuse, the consequences will be—~SOCRATES: Do not