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Education (n.) is how society tames its lion cubs, as Callicles sees it: with charms and incantations it talks the strongest into the slavery of fair shares.
Equality (n.) is what inferior people like, says Callicles: an equal share suits those who could never win a bigger one.
The Good life (n.) means, for Callicles, letting your appetites grow as large as possible and having the courage and intelligence to fill each one as it comes.
Justice (n.) by nature, says Callicles, is that the superior rule the inferior and have more than they — as among animals, and as Xerxes thought when he marched on Greece.
Law (n.) and nature are mostly at odds, so whoever is too ashamed to say what he really thinks ends up contradicting himself.
Law (n.) is made by the weak and the many, who hand out praise and blame with an eye to their own advantage, to scare off the strong.
The Mob (n.) is, to Callicles, a garbage pile of slaves and riffraff, good for nothing but brute strength — and whatever it declares is no rule at all.
A Philosopher (n.) who keeps at it too long ends up inexperienced in the laws, in business talk, in pleasures and appetites — in the ways of human beings altogether — and a laughingstock in public life.
A Philosopher (n.) past his youth, Callicles sneers, shuns the marketplace and lives out his days in hiding, whispering in a corner with three or four boys.
A Philosopher (n.) hauled into court on a false charge would get dizzy, stand there gaping, and be put to death by some worthless accuser — so Callicles warns Socrates.
Philosophy (n.) turns human life upside down, if Socrates is in earnest: everything we do would be the opposite of what we should do.
Philosophy (n.) is charming in a boy, like a child's lisp; in a grown man it is ridiculous and unmanly, and the man deserves a flogging.
Praise (n.) is mostly self-praise: each man extols the pursuit he shines in and rails against whatever he is bad at.
Property (n.) belongs by nature to the stronger: Callicles reads it in Pindar, whose Heracles drove off Geryon's cattle without paying for them.