Dialogue

 1  Gorg|   artists, the whole tribe of statesmen, past as well as present,
 2  Gorg|       the world; the Athenian statesmen of a former generation,
 3  Gorg| rhetoricians; and also of the statesmen, whom he regards as another
 4  Gorg| afterwards reckoned among the statesmen of a past age; or with the
 5  Gorg|      who were the really good statesmen, you answer—as if I asked
 6  Gorg|    like them; you applaud the statesmen of old, who pandered to
 7  Gorg|      human life. The greatest statesmen have fallen very far short
 8  Gorg|     this world or to another. Statesmen, Sophists, rhetoricians,
 9  Gorg|   expected of them, and their statesmen have received justice at
10  Gorg|  Gorgias, find fault with all statesmen past as well as present,
11  Gorg|       tell me of any of these statesmen who did distinguish them?~
12  Gorg|       was true of our present statesmen, but not true of former
13  Gorg|       superior to our present statesmen, although I do admit that
14  Gorg|     the exact parallel of the statesmen whom you mention. Now you
15  Gorg|     attributed to these elder statesmen; for they have filled the
16  Gorg|      now as of old; about our statesmen. When the State treats any