Dialogue

 1  Gorg| aspects of life and knowledge appear to be the two leading ideas
 2  Gorg|    The true and false finally appear before the judgment-seat
 3  Gorg|     to the paradoxes, as they appear to him, of Socrates with
 4  Gorg|       or almost all desire to appear better than they are, that
 5  Gorg|       be what they would fain appear in the eyes of their fellow-men.
 6  Gorg|       Sixth Aeneid of Virgil, appear to contain reminiscences
 7  Gorg|       Then rhetoric, as would appear, is the artificer of a persuasion
 8  Gorg|    there are many persons who appear to be in good health, and
 9  Gorg|    you mean.~SOCRATES: Do men appear to you to will that which
10  Gorg|      the painfulness does not appear to me to follow from your
11  Gorg|    are we not doing, as would appear, in everything the opposite
12  Gorg|  flute-playing? Does not that appear to be an art which seeks
13  Gorg|   states? Do the rhetoricians appear to you always to aim at
14  Gorg|    more than you can, and not appear ridiculous. This is my position
15  Gorg|      SOCRATES: Then, as would appear, power and art have to be
16  Gorg|       words, Socrates, always appear to me to be good words;
17  Gorg|     capital wine;—to me these appear to be the exact parallel
18  Gorg|     me whether there does not appear to you to be a great inconsistency
19  Gorg|      insult.~Perhaps this may appear to you to be only an old