Gorgias Quotes

• Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed with her maids.

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  Philosophy   Men   Bed  

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• 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.

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  Art   Law   Answers  

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• Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

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  Pain   Powerful   Joy  

  2483

• The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not

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  Men   Justice   Doe  

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• Nothing exists; even if something exists, nothing can be known about it; and even if something can be known about it, knowledge about it can't be communicated to others.

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  Philosophy   Communication   Knowledge  

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• Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.

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  Manage   Seeming   Seems  

  335

• Man and woman and speech and deed and city and object should be honored with praise if praiseworthy and incur blame if unworthy, for it is an equal error and mistake to blame the praisable and to praise the blamable.

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  Mistake   Men   Errors  

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• 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 and others to life, so also in the case of speeches, some distress, others delight, some cause fear, others make the hearers bold, and some drug and bewitch the soul with a kind of evil persuasion.

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  Evil   Drug   Soul  

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