Gorgias

by Plato · c. 385 BCE

Benjamin Jowett's translation, 1871. 1 part, about 35,786 words, 3 hours of reading. Source edition.

Gorgias4 passages · 35,786 words

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I would rather that my lyre were out of tune and discordant, and that the chorus I led should be, and that most men should disagree with me, than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself and contradict…
482b-c · Read it in Gorgias
Nature herself shows that it is just for the better man to have more than the worse, and the more powerful than the less.
483c-d · Read it in Gorgias
Philosophy is a graceful thing if a man engages in it moderately while young, but if he keeps at it longer than he should it is the ruin of him.
484c · Read it in Gorgias
Doing injustice is the greater of two evils, and suffering it the lesser.
469b and following · Read it in Gorgias

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