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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.