Dialogue

1503  Gorg|          easily feign the language of piety or virtue; and there is
1504  Gorg|              may be compared with the Pilgrim’s Progress of Bunyan, in
1505  Gorg|               by the spirits in their pilgrimage. It is a curious observation,
1506  Gorg|               despoil and enslave and pillage, or in any way at all to
1507  Gorg|               also just and brave and pious, and has attained the perfection
1508  Gorg|                dia to pithanon te kai pistikon onomase pithon.), and the
1509  Gorg|             should be thrown into the pit of death, and he was only
1510  Gorg|            untranslatable pun,—dia to pithanon te kai pistikon onomase
1511  Gorg|               te kai pistikon onomase pithon.), and the ignorant he called
1512  Gorg|              and justly slays him, is pitiable and wretched?~SOCRATES:
1513  Gorg|              would have said that not Pitt or Fox, or Canning or Sir
1514  Gorg|              of the Athenians and the plan of the harbour were devised
1515  Gorg|              for the execution of his plans; not hurrying them on when
1516  Gorg|             him they are indeed ‘more plastic than wax’ (Republic). We
1517  Gorg|             skill are combined, if he plays long enough he is certain
1518  Gorg|             poetry is often a sort of plaything, or, in Plato’s language,
1519  Gorg|       rhetoric of self-love is always pleading with them on their own behalf.
1520  Gorg|               one image to another is pleasing to us: on the other hand,
1521  Gorg|           which of them belong to the pleasurable class, and which of them
1522  Gorg|            clique of friends. He will pledge himself to retract any error
1523  Gorg|         thinking about; he would have plenty to say. Nevertheless you
1524  Gorg|        ironical tale of the pilot who plies between Athens and Aegina
1525  Gorg|       Puritans, is too much afraid of poetic and artistic influences.
1526  Gorg|          those things ‘unfit for ears polite’ which Callicles has prophesied
1527  Gorg|          Aglaophon, or of his brother Polygnotus, what ought we to call him?~
1528  Gorg|            for the longer voyage from Pontus or Egypt, at the utmost
1529  Gorg|               ship and guide her into port.~The false politician asks
1530  Gorg|              and devotes the greatest portion of the day to that in which
1531  Gorg|               the Apology, Crito, and portions of the Republic, and like
1532  Gorg|          Gorgias, or in the companion portrait of the philosopher in the
1533  Gorg|          tells us (Il.), how Zeus and Poseidon and Pluto divided the empire
1534  Gorg|    foreknowledge of death, which they possess at present: this power which
1535  Gorg|              art of life which he who possesses seeks always to impart to
1536  Gorg|               remembered by a distant posterity.~There are always discontented
1537  Gorg|               gives you the bitterest potions, and compels you to hunger
1538  Gorg|             when you are learning the potter’s art; which is a foolish
1539  Gorg|       goodness which Plato desires to pourtray, not without an allusion
1540  Gorg|              than the worse, the more powerful than the weaker; and in
1541  Gorg|              men. But such ideals act powerfully on the imagination of mankind.
1542  Gorg|             fate of the just man, the powerlessness of evil, and the reversal
1543  Gorg|           right to despise him or any practiser of saving arts. But is not
1544  Gorg|           unless we suppose him to be practising on the simplicity of his
1545  Gorg|               to do so.~GORGIAS: Then pray do.~SOCRATES: And are we
1546  Gorg|               our aid the rhetoric of prayer and preaching, which the
1547  Gorg|              long a good man has been praying to be delivered. And often,
1548  Gorg|         opportunity of attaining this pre-eminence of evil. They are not incurable,
1549  Gorg|              poet and the prophet, or preacher, in primitive antiquity
1550  Gorg|            the rhetoric of prayer and preaching, which the mind silently
1551  Gorg|          found to be as transient and precarious as pleasure.~b. The arts
1552  Gorg|              in a body, each claiming precedence and saying that her own
1553  Gorg|              follows equally with the preceding from the assertion that
1554  Gorg|            tripods which stand in the precincts of Dionysus, come with him;
1555  Gorg|              for the misdeeds of your predecessors. The old story is always
1556  Gorg|               found himself in such a predicament? If he told the truth he
1557  Gorg|               be described by similar predicates;—a mistake which Aristotle
1558  Gorg|       stripped of their dignities and preferments; he despatches the bad to
1559  Gorg|               of former ones, and you preferred them to the others; yet
1560  Gorg|               which you were just now preferring?~CALLICLES: I do not understand
1561  Gorg|               and countries. They are presented in the most lively and graphic
1562  Gorg|               any more questions. The presentiment of his own fate is hanging
1563  Gorg|      experience and routine, and just preserves the recollection of what
1564  Gorg|              of them. For if the body presided over itself, and were not
1565  Gorg|               became my duty as their president to take the votes, there
1566  Gorg|               We do Plato violence in pressing his figures of speech or
1567  Gorg|             to come to him, under the pretence that he would restore to
1568  Gorg|        unpresuming: it has no airs or pretences of doing anything extraordinary,
1569  Gorg|               Socrates, that you, who pretend to be engaged in the pursuit
1570  Gorg|       disgrace must be caused by some preternatural greatness, or extraordinary
1571  Gorg|            place of Gorgias under the pretext that the old man was tired,
1572  Gorg|             that in which disorder is prevalent, or that in which there
1573  Gorg|               Sienna, or the Catholic priest who lately devoted himself
1574  Gorg|             to Minos I shall give the primacy, and he shall hold a court
1575  Gorg|         fellow citizens, which is the prime object of the truly good
1576  Gorg|              prophet, or preacher, in primitive antiquity are one and the
1577  Gorg|             all distinguishable. Some prince or potentate, perhaps even
1578  Gorg|         consider in order some of the principal points of the dialogue.
1579  Gorg|        hanging up as examples, in the prison-house of the world below, a spectacle
1580  Gorg|             freedom with order is the problem which he has to solve.~The
1581  Gorg|          obliged to alter the mode of procedure, and try them after death,
1582  Gorg|              yet answered him when he proceeded to ask a further question:
1583  Gorg|         pleasant vices, and willingly proclaim in word and song truths
1584  Gorg|              Platonic dialogue on the Procrustean bed of a single idea. (Compare
1585  Gorg|           disposed to envy either the procurers or enjoyers of them, are
1586  Gorg|               I mean to say, that the producers of those things which the
1587  Gorg|              further, and divides all productive arts into two classes: (
1588  Gorg|            may be called the theme or proem (beginning ‘The mind through
1589  Gorg|              to be jesting when he is profoundly serious. At length he makes
1590  Gorg|           compared with the Pilgrim’s Progress of Bunyan, in which discussions
1591  Gorg|          former world, as it is often projected into a future. We ask the
1592  Gorg|              you contract, Polus, the prolixity of speech in which you indulged
1593  Gorg|           cares should be directed to prolonging life to the uttermost, and
1594  Gorg|              form, is really far more prominent than in most modern treatises
1595  Gorg|         refused, especially as I have promised to answer all comers; in
1596  Gorg|            the request of Socrates he promises to be brief; for ‘he can
1597  Gorg|               to say that those which promote health, or any other bodily
1598  Gorg|            actions, when they are not prompted by wisdom, are of no value.
1599  Gorg|             more about him; he cannot pronounce even the great king to be
1600  Gorg|               the weaker and inferior properly belong to the stronger and
1601  Gorg|           polite’ which Callicles has prophesied as likely to happen to him
1602  Gorg|            respecting the ‘liberty of prophesying;’ and Plato is not affirming
1603  Gorg|            sorrows of whom the Hebrew prophets spoke, has sunk deep into
1604  Gorg|               and persecutors will be proportionably tormented. Men are found
1605  Gorg|             followed at once, and was proportioned to the offence. Moral evil
1606  Gorg|             modest charge; and in the proposed use of rhetoric as an instrument
1607  Gorg|          nature of his art. Callicles proposes that they shall go with
1608  Gorg|          fancy, but it is restored to propriety when we remember that it
1609  Gorg|               and writing, poetry and prose. But he has discovered a
1610  Gorg|               much at length, becomes prosy and monotonous. In theology
1611  Gorg|           SOCRATES: And what art will protect us from suffering injustice,
1612  Gorg|               resemble him. Under his protection he will suffer no evil,
1613  Gorg|            kindred with them, and are proud to be called by their names. (
1614  Gorg|       CALLICLES: The wise man, as the proverb says, is late for a fray,
1615  Gorg|          Compare the obscure verse of Proverbs, ‘Therefore if thine enemy
1616  Gorg|                indeed; and this again proves that knowledge and belief
1617  Gorg|              if our bodies are hungry provides food for them, and if they
1618  Gorg|           they do not come within the province of rhetoric.~GORGIAS: You
1619  Gorg|            unaided skill—in that case prudence would not dissuade us from
1620  Gorg|              my tribe were serving as Prytanes, and it became my duty as
1621  Gorg|              he was only saved by the Prytanis. And yet, if they had been
1622  Gorg|           other (compare for examples Psalms xviii. and xix.). Whether
1623  Gorg|              makes a wrong use of his pugilistic art; and in like manner,
1624  Gorg|             vessel (An untranslatable pun,—dia to pithanon te kai
1625  Gorg|         discussion of a matter from a pure love of knowing the truth,
1626  Gorg|              in the Gorgias be deemed purely self-regarding, considering
1627  Gorg|           glorified earth, fairer and purer than that in which we dwell.
1628  Gorg|        noblest truths, sung of in the purest and sweetest language, are
1629  Gorg|               It includes a Paradiso, Purgatorio, and Inferno, like the sister
1630  Gorg|              and Republic, supposes a purgatory or place of education for
1631  Gorg|           would to the physician, and purge away his crime. Rhetoric
1632  Gorg|             where they dwell, and are purified of their evil deeds, and
1633  Gorg|              sermons? Plato, like the Puritans, is too much afraid of poetic
1634  Gorg|            you again and again (and I purposely use the same images) that
1635  Gorg|          befall a man, nor to have my purse or my body cut open, but
1636  Gorg|          Every man shines in that and pursues that, and devotes the greatest
1637  Gorg|              man while he is young in pursuing such a study; but when he
1638  Gorg|         understand me the better. The purveyor of the articles may provide
1639  Gorg|            are only the ministers and purveyors of luxury, who have no good
1640  Gorg|              is unable to explain the puzzle how rhetoric can teach everything
1641  Gorg|             Phaedrus, the Gorgias has puzzled students of Plato by the
1642  Gorg|               he who says without any qualification that all who feel pleasure
1643  Gorg|    calculation considers not only the quantities of odd and even numbers,
1644  Gorg|               talking straight on, or questioning and answering yourself?~
1645  Gorg|             knew, Socrates, what your quibbling means.~SOCRATES: You know,
1646  Gorg|              with penetrating eye and quick ear, is ready to take command
1647  Gorg|              hunger, feed him,’ etc., quoted in Romans.)~Men are not
1648  Gorg|             or Fox, or Canning or Sir R. Peel, are the real politicians
1649  Gorg|          imagine me to say, that if a rabble of slaves and nondescripts,
1650  Gorg|         indeed among whole cities and races, that justice consists in
1651  Gorg|          tyrant, and when detected is racked, mutilated, has his eyes
1652  Gorg|           again comprehending a wider range and soaring to the abstract
1653  Gorg|            which prevail in different ranks of society. There is the
1654  Gorg|             of many hearts. Often the rapid transition from one image
1655  Gorg|              often supposed to die in raptures, having his eye fixed on
1656  Gorg|             you, I have just acquired rare power, and become a tyrant;
1657  Gorg|            last things,’ have found a ray of light in his writings.
1658  Gorg|               use of them when he has reached the limits of human knowledge;
1659  Gorg|              in which he who runs may read if he will exercise ordinary
1660  Gorg|          thing which, as I was lately reading in a book of yours, you
1661  Gorg|          antiquity, which we can only realize by an effort, imperceptibly
1662  Gorg|                One soweth and another reapeth.’ We may imagine with Plato
1663  Gorg|          several pages, appearing and reappearing at intervals: such as the
1664  Gorg|             rhetorician rather than a reasoner. And this, as I suppose,
1665  Gorg|          manner. That Plato sometimes reasons from them as if they were
1666  Gorg|            great man will rise up and reassert his original rights, trampling
1667  Gorg|              on the part of Callicles reassures him, and they proceed with
1668  Gorg|           counselling moderation, and recalling us to the indications of
1669  Gorg|            speech of Socrates and the recantation of it. To these may be added (
1670  Gorg|           Listen to me, then, while I recapitulate the argument:—Is the pleasant
1671  Gorg|              the previous argument is recapitulated, and the nature and degrees
1672  Gorg|               he falls into error. He recapitulates the advantages which he
1673  Gorg|       revelation of another life is a recapitulation of the argument in a figure.~(
1674      | recently
1675  Gorg|               B.C.) and is afterwards reckoned among the statesmen of a
1676  Gorg|             the box on the ears, will recoil upon his assailant. (Compare
1677  Gorg|             arts and graces which you recommend, I shall have nothing to
1678  Gorg|               and receives his proper recompense. Or, again, he looks with
1679  Gorg|               marked, but is scarcely reconcilable with another indication
1680  Gorg|               made a nation, seeks to reconcile the national interests with
1681  Gorg|        ordinary man, from the natural rectitude of his disposition, may
1682  Gorg|             but I dare say that if we recur to these same matters, and
1683  Gorg|               we constantly find them recurring in reviews and newspapers,
1684  Gorg|               of framing a definition recurs. The illusive analogy of
1685  Gorg|            and numerous allusions and references are interspersed, which
1686  Gorg|            the dialogue is frequently referred to, and the meaning breaks
1687  Gorg|             is not a public man, and (referring to his own conduct at the
1688  Gorg|             other devourer;—and so he reflects that such a one had better
1689  Gorg|        mythology; and they are also a reform of mythology. The moral
1690  Gorg|             against me. But please to refresh my memory a little; did
1691  Gorg|               reason is there in your refusal? What right have you to
1692  Gorg|            making a long oration, and refusing to answer what you are asked,
1693  Gorg|              compare the two kinds of refutations, how unlike they are. All
1694  Gorg|            the unseen, and moves in a region between them. A great writer
1695  Gorg|               what upon reflection we regret; when from any want of self-control
1696  Gorg|       exhibition of Gorgias, which he regrets, because he was desirous,
1697  Gorg|              he likes and holding the reins of government, the envy
1698  Gorg|               his reply. And we shall rejoin: Yes; but our friend Gorgias
1699  Gorg|             The myth in the Statesman relates to a former cycle of existence,
1700  Gorg|               any allegory or parable relating to the unseen world, is
1701  Gorg|             must acknowledge, however reluctantly, that there is an element
1702  Gorg|              do rightly he would have remained his slave, and then, according
1703  Gorg|       intemperance is base. As I have remarked already, they enslave the
1704  Gorg|           against him, and may not be remembered by a distant posterity.~
1705  Gorg|              Socrates, which Socrates remembers hearing him give long ago
1706  Gorg|             of such topics. But he is reminded by Socrates that they are
1707  Gorg|               profession of ignorance reminds us of the earlier and more
1708  Gorg|             Virgil, appear to contain reminiscences of the mysteries. It is
1709  Gorg|            tell you how he showed his remorse? he had a younger brother,
1710  Gorg|               thesis independently of remoter consequences.~(3) Plato’
1711  Gorg|               because they are thrice removed from the ideal truth. And
1712  Gorg|            true.~SOCRATES: And he who removes injustice can be in no danger
1713  Gorg|             can afford to leave their remuneration to those who have been benefited
1714  Gorg|         before the judge in that day. Renouncing the honours at which the
1715  Gorg|            been the cause I will also repair; for Gorgias is a friend
1716  Gorg|               does Socrates become. A repartee of his which appears to
1717  Gorg|             or men; and this has been repeatedly acknowledged by us to be
1718  Gorg|    countenance of both his loves, and repeats their sentiments, and if
1719  Gorg|          world below have a place for repentant sinners, as well as other
1720  Gorg|            men, and was very far from repenting: shall I tell you how he
1721  Gorg|            that you would not find me repining at death. For no man who
1722  Gorg|             Archelaus, if Polus truly reports of him, and any other tyrant
1723  Gorg|      physician and be healed. On this representation of Plato’s the criticism
1724  Gorg|               Plato may be accused of representing a superhuman or transcendental
1725  Gorg|               and are admonishing and reproaching me for not being one, suppose
1726  Gorg|           opinion which he afterwards repudiates in the Phaedo. What then
1727  Gorg|           number of witnesses of good repute in proof of their allegations,
1728  Gorg|              himself loose from them, requires great force of mind; he
1729  Gorg|       benefits call forth a desire to requite them, and there is evidence
1730  Gorg|              the disciple desirous of requiting his teacher.~Socrates concludes
1731  Gorg|          Protagoras. There are closer resemblances both of spirit and language
1732  Gorg|              the ruler, and must also resemble him. Under his protection
1733  Gorg|               the Gorgias most nearly resembles the Apology, Crito, and
1734  Gorg|             are at present doing, and reserve for another occasion the
1735  Gorg|               to no harm if you nobly resign yourself into the healing
1736  Gorg|            other hand, have sought to resolve them wholly into their consequences.
1737  Gorg|             especially if in the last resort you are asked, whether the
1738  Gorg|               who have a great air of respectability. And in this argument nearly
1739  Gorg|             we say in a religious and respectable society?) are more likely
1740  Gorg|               of pain. Such are their respective lives:—And now would you
1741  Gorg|          brought to this point, turns restive, and suggests that Socrates
1742  Gorg|             be sure.~SOCRATES: And to restrain her from her appetites is
1743  Gorg|        CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES: Then restraint or chastisement is better
1744  Gorg|                no severe rules of art restrict them, and sometimes we are
1745  Gorg|             he himself says, we will ‘resume the argument from the beginning.’~
1746  Gorg|              them either wholesale or retail, or he may be the maker
1747  Gorg|               supposing that the soul retained a sort of corporeal likeness
1748  Gorg|            another is not healed, but retains the evil—which of them is
1749  Gorg|            Polus not unnecessarily to retaliate on him.~‘Do you mean to
1750  Gorg|             while at the same time he retaliates upon his adversaries. From
1751  Gorg|             state of Athens. Socrates retorts, that yet harder will be
1752  Gorg|    distinguishing pleasure from good, returns to his old division of empirical
1753  Gorg|               and docks and walls and revenues and all that, and have left
1754  Gorg|     constantly find them recurring in reviews and newspapers, and still
1755  Gorg|              perplexing them, or with reviling their elders, he will not
1756  Gorg|          strip all poetry of song and rhythm and metre, there will remain
1757  Gorg|            Hume, Adam Smith, Bentham, Ricardo. These during the greater
1758  Gorg|              will, may summon all the rich men of Athens, Nicias and
1759  Gorg|             are fixed not on power or riches or extension of territory,
1760  Gorg|               that are persecuted for righteousness’ sake.’—Matt.~The words
1761  Gorg|               do you not, that in the rightly-developed man the passions ought not
1762  Gorg|          applauses of Europe and Asia ringing in his ears; though he is
1763  Gorg|                and seem to be running riot in the argument. And now
1764  Gorg|            more deeply in earnest. He rises higher than even in the
1765  Gorg|             of the orator Lysias; the rival speech of Socrates and the
1766  Gorg|             they are carried down the river Acheron to the Acherusian
1767  Gorg|            now to have been fixed and riveted by us, if I may use an expression
1768  Gorg|              the ways, whence the two roads lead, one to the Islands
1769  Gorg|           uphill battle; he keeps the roadway of politics. He is unwilling
1770  Gorg|                and might be murdered, robbed, boxed on the ears with
1771  Gorg|         desire satisfy them leading a robber’s life. Such a one is the
1772  Gorg|      Nicomachean Ethics. Traces of a ‘robust sophistry’ are likewise
1773  Gorg|               pointed out to them the rocks which lay concealed under
1774  Gorg|            feed him,’ etc., quoted in Romans.)~Men are not in the habit
1775  Gorg|            all that, and have left no room for justice and temperance.
1776  Gorg|            his brothers, who gave the row of tripods which stand in
1777  Gorg|                But when the tyrant is rude and uneducated, he may be
1778  Gorg|               conversation; no severe rules of art restrict them, and
1779  Gorg|              is an impetuous youth, a runaway ‘colt,’ as Socrates describes
1780  Gorg|             of speech the changes are rung many times over. It is observable
1781  Gorg|               his disciple Polus, who rushes to the defence of his master.
1782  Gorg|           gained by the employment of sacred and familiar names, just
1783  Gorg|         opinion, have been willing to sacrifice their lives for the good
1784  Gorg|              like to like, as ancient sages say: Would you not agree
1785  Gorg|            sitting, walking, running, sailing; or, again, wood, stones,
1786  Gorg|               pilot, and the mutinous sailors (Republic), in which is
1787  Gorg|       popularity, and in fair weather sails gallantly along. But unpopularity
1788  Gorg|            suppose that the mediaeval saint, St. Bernard, St. Francis,
1789  Gorg|               one another (‘the buyer saith, it is nought—it is nought,’
1790  Gorg|          youthful Polus, ironical and sarcastic in his encounter with Callicles.
1791  Gorg|               he is surrounded by his satellites, and has the applauses of
1792  Gorg|              received them, and their savageness was shown towards himself;
1793  Gorg|             pilot, although he is our saviour, is not usually conceited,
1794  Gorg|               guides in danger, their saviours in extremity; they do not
1795  Gorg|              his readers; he has the ‘savoir faire,’ or trick of writing,
1796  Gorg|               one is surprised at his sayings and doings, the explanation
1797  Gorg|          probably in allusion to some scandal of the day) and his servility
1798  Gorg|             and word-splitting; he is scandalized that the legitimate consequences
1799  Gorg|           which fill them are few and scanty, and he can only obtain
1800  Gorg|              Aristocrates, the son of Scellius, who is the giver of that
1801  Gorg|              same; and they both have sceptres, and judge; but Minos alone
1802  Gorg|         justice.~And this is the true scheme of them, but when measured
1803  Gorg|               sequence. The mantle of Schleiermacher has descended upon his successors,
1804  Gorg|           which comes out of the same school:—Let me request you to consider
1805  Gorg|             and had the prints of the scourge, or of wounds in him when
1806  Gorg|          stripes, allow himself to be scourged, if of bonds, to be bound,
1807  Gorg|               I answer, that even the scratcher would live pleasantly.~SOCRATES:
1808  Gorg|             Hellas, or his father the Scythians? (not to speak of numberless
1809  Gorg|              he be delivered from the sea, or the law-courts, or any
1810  Gorg|            out and walks about on the sea-shore by his ship in an unassuming
1811  Gorg|          contemning such tales, if by searching we could find out anything
1812  Gorg|       physician operate with knife or searing iron, not regarding the
1813  Gorg|             and painfully invented. A secular age succeeds to a theocratical.
1814  Gorg|             study of those arts which secure us from danger always; like
1815  Gorg|       conflicting elements, increased security against external enemies.
1816  Gorg|           earth which we inhabit is a sediment of the coarser particles
1817  Gorg|             into one another, and are seldom kept perfectly distinct.
1818  Gorg|            their own work, and do not select and apply at random what
1819  Gorg|            only use of rhetoric is in self-accusation, and Polus was right in
1820  Gorg|          rhetoric as an instrument of self-condemnation; and in the mighty power
1821  Gorg|          another parable. The life of self-contentment and self-indulgence may
1822  Gorg|             If I had not this kind of self-help, I should be ashamed; but
1823  Gorg|               sunk in error, based on self-interest. To this is opposed the
1824  Gorg|              Gorgias be deemed purely self-regarding, considering that Socrates
1825  Gorg|             insists on his exercising self-restraint. And this is good for the
1826  Gorg|          judges in the courts, or the senators in the council, or the citizens
1827  Gorg|               conscience; or that the sensations of the impaled criminal
1828  Gorg|              is in a bad state and is senseless and intemperate and unjust
1829  Gorg|                And did you ever see a sensible man rejoicing or sorrowing?~
1830  Gorg|           Republic); he idealizes the sensual; he sings the strain of
1831  Gorg|             after death, having first sent down Prometheus to take
1832  Gorg|              numerical interval which separates king from tyrant, should
1833  Gorg|            respecting their order and sequence. The mantle of Schleiermacher
1834  Gorg|           evil doing.’—1 Pet.~And the Sermon on the Mount—~‘Blessed are
1835  Gorg|                better than a thousand sermons? Plato, like the Puritans,
1836  Gorg|           stronger than death. He who serves man without the thought
1837  Gorg|              they were certainly more serviceable than those who are living
1838  Gorg|               to do with the body are servile and menial and illiberal;
1839  Gorg|           scandal of the day) and his servility to the populace. At the
1840  Gorg|               false politician is the serving-man of the state. In order to
1841  Gorg|          against them regarded as the serving-men of the State; and I do think
1842  Gorg|             man and true orator has a settled design, running through
1843  Gorg|           younger brother, a child of seven years old, who was the legitimate
1844  Gorg|              subjects with which they severally have to do.~GORGIAS: Clearly.~
1845  Gorg|           freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art restrict them,
1846  Gorg|        respecting the division of the sexes, Sym.: (11) the parable
1847  Gorg|           draws a distinction between shadows or appearances and realities;
1848  Gorg|             yet they retain a sort of shadowy form when they cry for mercy
1849  Gorg|             very likely some one will shamefully box you on the ears, and
1850  Gorg|               to himself and were not shared by the rest of his species—
1851  Gorg|        mistake which Aristotle partly shares and partly corrects in the
1852  Gorg|               us, and their lives may shed a light on many dark places
1853  Gorg|              of natural justice would shine forth. And this I take to
1854  Gorg|              more clever at providing ships and walls and docks, and
1855  Gorg|             when the waves nearer the shore are threatening him. He
1856  Gorg|          wanted, Gorgias; exhibit the shorter method now, and the longer
1857  Gorg|             as to a physician without shrinking, and either say ‘Yes’ or ‘
1858  Gorg|             Francis, St. Catharine of Sienna, or the Catholic priest
1859  Gorg|             preaching, which the mind silently employs while the struggle
1860  Gorg|              human being should be so silly as to set up as state-physicians
1861  Gorg|             into one another; and the simpler notions of antiquity, which
1862  Gorg|        simultaneous, and do not cease simultaneously, and therefore pleasure
1863  Gorg|            from good is proved by the simultaneousness of pleasure and pain, and
1864  Gorg|           drinking song, in which the singers enumerate the goods of life,
1865  Gorg|             idealizes the sensual; he sings the strain of love in the
1866  Gorg|                 2) Socrates makes the singular remark, that he is himself
1867  Gorg|               allow our principles to sink to the level of our practice.~
1868  Gorg|              suffer because they have sinned; like sick men, they must
1869  Gorg|               and the reversal of the situation in another life, are also
1870  Gorg|             or temples of the largest size, ought we not to examine
1871  Gorg|              the palestra and to be a skilful boxer,—he in the fulness
1872  Gorg|              containing under a human skin a lion and a many-headed
1873  Gorg|               busy haunts of men, and skulk in corners, whispering to
1874  Gorg|              in a trance after he was slain coincide with the time passed
1875  Gorg|               to my ears the twang of slavery. So when I hear a man lisping,
1876  Gorg|        Apology, ‘death be only a long sleep,’ we can hardly tell what
1877  Gorg|        carried them off by night, and slew them, and got both of them
1878  Gorg|               upon one another by the slightest threads; and have thus been
1879  Gorg|              us a lesson which we are slow to learn—that good intentions,
1880  Gorg|          again, and arts and laws are slowly and painfully invented.
1881  Gorg|            SOCRATES: Or swiftness and slowness?~CALLICLES: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
1882  Gorg|            For in all of us there are slumbering ideals of truth and right,
1883  Gorg|       advantage to be thereby gained, slyly ask of him who is arguing
1884  Gorg|             best of all will have the smallest share of all, Callicles:—
1885  Gorg|            body cut open, but that to smite and slay me and mine wrongfully
1886  Gorg|           time, but Locke, Hume, Adam Smith, Bentham, Ricardo. These
1887  Gorg|          despise him and his art, and sneeringly call him an engine-maker,
1888  Gorg|       comprehending a wider range and soaring to the abstract and universal.
1889  Gorg|               of idealism to which he soars. When declaring truths which
1890  Gorg|       lingering disease that he might solace and help others, was thinking
1891  Gorg|               in a good cause, when a soldier falls in battle, we do not
1892  Gorg|             the Muse of Tragedy, that solemn and august personage—what
1893  Gorg|               problem which he has to solve.~The statesman who places
1894  Gorg|       disagreements are apt to arise —somebody says that another has not
1895  Gorg|               by their apprentices,—a somewhat laboured figure of speech
1896  Gorg|               for in that way I shall soonest bring the argument to an
1897  Gorg|          naturally exasperated at the sophism, which he is unable to detect;
1898  Gorg|             sensible man rejoicing or sorrowing?~CALLICLES: Yes.~SOCRATES:
1899  Gorg|              Socrates, which at first sounded paradoxical, come home to
1900  Gorg|               know nothing from other sources, the opinions of the man
1901  Gorg|            afterwards. But is not the sovereign equally unfortunate whose
1902  Gorg|             an empire or a tyranny or sovereignty, what could be more truly
1903  Gorg|            persons; nevertheless they sowed in the minds of men seeds
1904  Gorg|              is that saying true, One soweth and another reapeth.’ We
1905  Gorg|            occupied an inconsiderable space in the eyes of the public.
1906  Gorg|               is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversation;
1907  Gorg|    prison-house of the world below, a spectacle and a warning to all unrighteous
1908  Gorg|        statesman in whom practice and speculation are perfectly harmonized;
1909  Gorg|             foot all our formulas and spells and charms, and all our
1910  Gorg|               of speech in which the ‘spiritual combat’ of this life is
1911  Gorg|          rhetoric, and dazzled by the splendour of success, he is not insensible
1912  Gorg|                emulating these paltry splitters of words, and emulate only
1913  Gorg|                 Why will you continue splitting words? Have I not told you
1914  Gorg|       observation and experience. The spoilt child is in later life said
1915  Gorg|              brought forth all things spontaneously, and God was to man what
1916  Gorg|         dissatisfaction and criticism springs up among those who are ready
1917  Gorg|               and making men affect a spurious beauty to the neglect of
1918  Gorg|              not therefore to strike, stab, or slay his friends. Suppose
1919  Gorg|       assembled, is introduced on the stage: he is with difficulty convinced
1920  Gorg|            with which each action has stained him, and he is all crooked
1921  Gorg|            rhetorician who is of this stamp, who is he?~CALLICLES: But,
1922  Gorg|          villain; and seeing this, he stamps him as curable or incurable,
1923  Gorg|     expression of his own, when he is standing on the outside of the intellectual
1924  Gorg|              for I do not know how he stands in the matter of education
1925  Gorg|               will find ruin or death staring him in the face, and will
1926  Gorg|              moral law within and the starry heaven above,’ and pass
1927  Gorg|              about the motions of the stars and sun and moon, and their
1928  Gorg|                the physician would be starved to death. A flattery I deem
1929  Gorg|               cutting and burning and starving and suffocating you, until
1930  Gorg|            his own argument should be stated in plain terms; after the
1931  Gorg|          disproves the first of these statements by showing that two opposites
1932  Gorg|           that there are two kinds of statesmanship, a higher and a lower—that
1933  Gorg|            judgment. But this mode of stating the question is really opposed
1934  Gorg|            speaking; in painting, and statuary, and many other arts, the
1935  Gorg|     government. He has also carried a step further his speculations
1936  Gorg|              of thinkers, as they are stiller and deeper, are also happier
1937  Gorg|         allied to sense; because they stimulate the emotions; because they
1938  Gorg|           intervals: such as the bees stinging and stingless (paupers and
1939  Gorg|              as the bees stinging and stingless (paupers and thieves) in
1940  Gorg|         Archelaus is tormented by the stings of conscience; or that the
1941  Gorg|               they would agree to the stoical paradox that a man may be
1942  Gorg|             thought, he had his mouth stopped. For the truth is, Socrates,
1943  Gorg|             government. Then when the storm descends and the winds blow,
1944  Gorg|            SOCRATES: Listen, then, as story-tellers say, to a very pretty tale,
1945  Gorg|             and imposture, and has no straightness, because he has lived without
1946  Gorg|             the sensual; he sings the strain of love in the latest fashion;
1947  Gorg|               express surprise at the strangeness of what you say from time
1948  Gorg|          brain is worked out with the strangest incongruity. He is not the
1949  Gorg|               pleasure is a perpetual stream, flowing in and flowing
1950  Gorg|                meets Callicles in the streets of Athens. He is informed
1951  Gorg|             half-conscious feeling is strengthened by the expression. He is
1952  Gorg|              leave their brave attire strewn upon the earth—conducted
1953  Gorg|             Yes.~SOCRATES: And if the striker strikes violently or quickly,
1954  Gorg|             Well now, suppose that we strip all poetry of song and rhythm
1955  Gorg|             and of the judges who are stript of the clothes or disguises
1956  Gorg|            souls of the citizens, and strives to say what is best, whether
1957  Gorg|       consistency of the picture. The structure of the fiction is very slight,
1958  Gorg|               man of sense who is not studying the arts which will preserve
1959  Gorg|              that when we get old and stumble, a younger generation may
1960  Gorg|             now, if I and Gorgias are stumbling, here are you who should
1961  Gorg|        changing our minds; so utterly stupid are we! Let us, then, take
1962  Gorg|           application to a particular subject-matter, is a difficulty which remains
1963  Gorg|             regarded collectively and subjected to the influences of society.~
1964  Gorg|            Greek dramatists owe their sublimity to their ethical character.
1965  Gorg|            and will not require to be submitted to any further test. For
1966  Gorg|               how base would he be in submitting to them! To invite the common
1967  Gorg|             the general condemnation.~Subordinate to the main purpose of the
1968  Gorg|            and lay the blame of their subsequent disorders on their physicians.
1969  Gorg|             willing to be subject and subservient to him; he is the man who
1970  Gorg|         practised in private, whether successfully or not, and acquired experience
1971  Gorg| Schleiermacher has descended upon his successors, who have applied his method
1972  Gorg|             or half reveal to us by a sudden flash the thoughts of many
1973  Gorg|             souls; and they shall die suddenly and be deprived of all their
1974  Gorg|                may have supported the sufferers. But this extreme idealism
1975  Gorg|              burning and starving and suffocating you, until you know not
1976  Gorg|         notion that the universe is a suit of clothes, Tale of a Tub).
1977  Gorg|          supply him with distinctions suited to his view of human life.
1978  Gorg|        character. The noblest truths, sung of in the purest and sweetest
1979  Gorg|               pleasure depends on the superabundance of the influx.~SOCRATES:
1980  Gorg|             lack of knowledge or from superfluity of modesty, nor yet from
1981  Gorg|             accused of representing a superhuman or transcendental virtue
1982  Gorg|            the first place, I mean by superiors not cobblers or cooks, but
1983  Gorg|           Philosophy and poetry alike supply him with distinctions suited
1984  Gorg|             Plato in the necessity of supposing that the soul retained a
1985  Gorg|             him. I am speaking on the supposition that the argument ought
1986  Gorg|             after years the unhealthy surfeit brings the attendant penalty
1987  Gorg|           Here, Gorgias, I admire the surpassing brevity of your answers.~
1988  Gorg|               you then, Gorgias, what surprises me in your words; though
1989  Gorg|             the great questions which surround them. They must try to be
1990  Gorg|              and always; though he is surrounded by his satellites, and has
1991  Gorg|               be unnatural; but if we survey the whole human race, it
1992  Gorg|             in proper colours, and to sustain himself and others in enduring
1993  Gorg|       comprehends and holds under her sway all the inferior arts. Let
1994  Gorg|               other. But perhaps you, sweet Callicles, may be of another
1995  Gorg|             sung of in the purest and sweetest language, are still the
1996  Gorg|            provided for them (compare Swift’s notion that the universe
1997  Gorg|                And if you despise the swimmers, I will tell you of another
1998  Gorg|            great, not seeing that the swollen and ulcerated condition
1999  Gorg|               aim; a man may often be sworn down by a multitude of false
2000  Gorg|            the division of the sexes, Sym.: (11) the parable of the
2001  Gorg|               own day in a genial and sympathetic society. The descriptions
2002  Gorg|               Anytus, again, he has a sympathy with other men of the world;