Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     third Socratic paradox or ideal, that bad men do what they
 2  Gorg|       are his favourites. His ideal of human character is a
 3  Gorg| himself and others to his own ideal of life and action. And
 4  Gorg|   logic, as to criticise this ideal from a merely utilitarian
 5  Gorg|      view. If we say that the ideal is generally regarded as
 6  Gorg|       end, is really quite as ideal and almost as paradoxical
 7  Gorg|       All will agree that the ideal of the Divine Sufferer,
 8  Gorg|    far short of the political ideal, and are therefore justly
 9  Gorg|    fixed his mind, not on the ideal nature of good, but on the
10  Gorg|      we may now return to the ideal truth, and draw out in a
11  Gorg|       of territory, but on an ideal state, in which all the
12  Gorg|   statesman fall short of the ideal. And so partly from vanity
13  Gorg|     may imagine with Plato an ideal statesman in whom practice
14  Gorg|       thrice removed from the ideal truth. And in a similar
15  Gorg|    the novelist, too, make an ideal, or rather many ideals of
16  Gorg|    discussed; the veil of the ideal state, the shadow of another
17  Gorg|       the human soul, yet the ideal of them may be present to
18  Gorg|   Cronos any more than in the ideal state.~It is characteristic