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Gorgias

c. 380s BCEGreek philosophyAncient (before 200 BCE)PlatoBook

A dialogue by Plato in which Socrates questions the orator Gorgias and his followers about rhetoric, power and justice. In it Socrates argues that it is better to suffer wrong than to do it.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorgias_(dialogue)

Quotes (1)

“I should not like either, but if I must choose between them, I would rather suffer than do.”
— Socrates (in Plato), Plato, Gorgias 469c, tr. Benjamin Jowett; Socrates on whether he would rather suffer or do injustice
VerifiedsourceMaxim: Do what is just, even when it costs you.Translation: public-domain translation (Jowett)