Dialogue

 1  Gorg|     may hardly admit that the moral antithesis of good and pleasure,
 2  Gorg|       at first enveloping his moral convictions in a cloud of
 3  Gorg|       he knows his mental and moral condition. Polus explains
 4  Gorg|      supplies no principle of moral growth or development. He
 5  Gorg|    that the only real evil is moral evil. The righteous may
 6  Gorg|  proportioned to the offence. Moral evil would then be scarcely
 7  Gorg|     or folly, regarded from a moral or religious point of view,
 8  Gorg|     transcendental systems of moral philosophy, he recognizes
 9  Gorg|       the chief incentives to moral virtue, and to most men
10  Gorg|     the reach of all, and the moral and intellectual qualities
11  Gorg|  enmity under the disguise of moral or political principle:
12  Gorg|      of poetry admitting of a moral. The poet and the prophet,
13  Gorg|    slight, the chief point or moral being that in the judgments
14  Gorg|      reform of mythology. The moral of them may be summed up
15  Gorg| necessarily include both ‘the moral law within and the starry
16  Gorg|   about what will tend to the moral improvement of his hearers,