Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain,… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be. — Gorgias Copy Share Image
The effect of speech upon the condition of the soul is comparable to the power of drugs over the nature of bodies. For just… — Gorgias Copy Share Image
