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Plato, Gorgias

the Gorgias

also: Gorgia, Gorgias, Plato's Gorgias

Plato's dialogue on rhetoric and justice, in which Socrates argues that it is better to suffer injustice than to do it, and that the unjust man, however powerful, is wretched. Cicero cites its exchange on Archelaus of Macedon to show Plato resting happiness in virtue alone.

Mentioned in 7 works (17 total)

On Invention rhetoric · 1 mention
On the Orator rhetoric · 3 mentions
Brutus rhetoric · 3 mentions
Orator: To Marcus Brutus rhetoric · 6 mentions
Tusculan Disputations philosophy · 1 mention
Ad Familiares 16.21 letters · 1 mention
Cato the Elder, On Old Age philosophy · 2 mentions

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