Plato's GorgiasBell, 1864 - 146 pages |
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Page xxxi
... wrong is to be more carefully avoided than suffering it ; that sterling truth and worth of character should be a man's study and not the mere seeming and outside show ; that whatever evil there be in a man must be removed by correction ...
... wrong is to be more carefully avoided than suffering it ; that sterling truth and worth of character should be a man's study and not the mere seeming and outside show ; that whatever evil there be in a man must be removed by correction ...
Page xxxii
... wrong , that is to their own injury and ruin here and here- after . And this I take to be the general conclusion scope and purpose of Plato's dialogue . Or We will now , proceed to consider the argument in detail , and trace the ...
... wrong , that is to their own injury and ruin here and here- after . And this I take to be the general conclusion scope and purpose of Plato's dialogue . Or We will now , proceed to consider the argument in detail , and trace the ...
Page xxxiii
... wrong if they come to him ignorant of such distinctions , though he is thereby involved in a contradiction , and seems , from other evidence , in reality to have differed from his sophistical brethren in abstaining from making the ...
... wrong if they come to him ignorant of such distinctions , though he is thereby involved in a contradiction , and seems , from other evidence , in reality to have differed from his sophistical brethren in abstaining from making the ...
Page xl
... wrong evil : c . 25. Polus now as a final and conclusive argument tri- umphantly quotes the case of Archelaus- the usurper and tyrant , who had earned by a series of the most atrocious crimes not punishment but the throne of Macedonia ...
... wrong evil : c . 25. Polus now as a final and conclusive argument tri- umphantly quotes the case of Archelaus- the usurper and tyrant , who had earned by a series of the most atrocious crimes not punishment but the throne of Macedonia ...
Page xli
... wrong , as such , and irrespective of their consequences : though at the same time he seems quite unconscious of what they really imply , and does not allow them to exercise the smallest influence upon the views of life which he adopts ...
... wrong , as such , and irrespective of their consequences : though at the same time he seems quite unconscious of what they really imply , and does not allow them to exercise the smallest influence upon the views of life which he adopts ...
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Page xix - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear ; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.