I answer, Socrates, that rhetoric is the art of persuasion in courts of law and other assemblies, as I was just now saying, and about the just and unjust. — 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 as different drugs dispel different secretions from the body, and some bring an end to disease… — 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
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