Gorgias

Plato

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Rhetoric [is] to justice what cookery is to medicine.


[It is] worse to do than to suffer wrong.


[T]hat part of the soul in foolish people where the desires reside—the uncontrolled and nonretentive part—he likened to a leaky jar, because it can never be filled.


[T]he good is not the same as the pleasant, my friend, nor the evil as the painful.


[T]he words lawfulness and law are applied to all order and regularity of the soul…and this means justice and temperance.


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