Plato, Gorgias, section 494d

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[494d]

Callicles
What an odd person you are, Socrates—a regular stump-orator!

Socrates
Why, of course, Callicles, that is how I upset Polus and Gorgias, and struck them with bashfulness; but you, I know, will never be upset or abashed; you are such a manly fellow. Come, just answer that.

Callicles
Then I say that the man also who scratches himself will thus spend a pleasant life.

Socrates
And if a pleasant one, a happy one also?

Callicles
Certainly.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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