Dialogue

 1  Gorg|      the lot of the successful tyrant who is the envy of the world,
 2  Gorg|       But this imitator of the tyrant,’ rejoins Callicles, ‘will
 3  Gorg|    agreeable than those of the tyrant drowned in luxurious enjoyment.
 4  Gorg|       the same judgment on the tyrant now and always; though he
 5  Gorg| dishonoured maiden, and of the tyrant to the parricide, who ‘beats
 6  Gorg|      which separates king from tyrant, should not be forgotten.~
 7  Gorg|       any one, whether he be a tyrant or a rhetorician, kills
 8  Gorg|     you would not wish to be a tyrant?~SOCRATES: Not if you mean
 9  Gorg|       rare power, and become a tyrant; for if I think that any
10  Gorg|      attempt to make himself a tyrant, and when detected is racked,
11  Gorg|      if he escape and become a tyrant, and continue all through
12  Gorg|      attempt to make himself a tyrant’?~POLUS: Yes, I did.~SOCRATES:
13  Gorg|      who escapes and becomes a tyrant is the more miserable of
14  Gorg|      is either a ruler or even tyrant himself, or the equal and
15  Gorg|         SOCRATES: But when the tyrant is rude and uneducated,
16  Gorg|  greatly his inferior, for the tyrant will despise him, and will
17  Gorg|     worth mentioning, whom the tyrant can have, will be one who
18  Gorg|        if he is to be like the tyrant in his injustice, and to
19  Gorg|       that he who imitates the tyrant will, if he has a mind,
20  Gorg|  reports of him, and any other tyrant who is like him. Of these