Dialogue

 1  Gorg|       and unscrupulous in his means of attaining both. There
 2  Gorg|    desires grow, and take the means of satisfying them. To the
 3  Gorg|      this? For if virtue only means the saving of life, whether
 4  Gorg|       that mankind will by no means agree in thinking that the
 5  Gorg|   goods are only desirable as means towards these. He is thought
 6  Gorg|    the end cannot justify the means, they feel also that good
 7  Gorg| reflect at all, except on the means by which they can compass
 8  Gorg|    knowledge?~GORGIAS: By all means.~SOCRATES: And which sort
 9  Gorg|       the name ‘Polus,’ which means ‘a colt.’)~GORGIAS: Never
10  Gorg|      if they be provided with means, are virtue and happiness—
11  Gorg|   argument?~CALLICLES: By all means. (Or, ‘I am in profound
12  Gorg| Socrates, what your quibbling means.~SOCRATES: You know, Callicles,
13  Gorg|       this?~CALLICLES: By all means.~SOCRATES: I think that