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.
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 e… - Gorgias
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 e…
- Gorgias
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be. - Gorgias
Being is unrecognizable unless it manages to seem, and seeming is feeble unless it manages to be.
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… - Gorgias
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…
The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not - Gorgias
The man who deceives shows more justice than he who does not
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, … - Gorgias
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, …
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 com… - Gorgias
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 com…
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
Men who neglect philosophy while busying themselves with ordinary affairs are like the Suitors [in the Odyssey] who desired Penelope but went to bed …
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 un… - Gorgias
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 un…
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