Dialogue

 1 Charm|           simply be to render the words of one language into the
 2 Charm|          of one language into the words of another or to preserve
 3 Charm|      order and arrangement of the words may be left to fade out
 4 Charm|            the right admixture of words and syllables, and even
 5 Charm|      therefore at liberty to omit words and turns of expression
 6 Charm|         is often much more one of words than of ideas. But modern
 7 Charm|           variety in the order of words or an equal nicety of emphasis
 8 Charm|         distinction of sex in the words denoting animals; but all
 9 Charm|         to similar objects, or to words of similar formation. This
10 Charm|        ideas not only affects the words to which genders are attributed,
11 Charm|           are attributed, but the words with which they are construed
12 Charm|           about the repetition of words, there seems to be a kind
13 Charm|          same thought in the same words, repeated twice over in
14 Charm|    equally with the repetition of words. Yet on the other hand the
15 Charm|         the faithful rendering of words, or in the composition of
16 Charm|         of familiar and idiomatic words. But great care must be
17 Charm|        but diffusing over several words the more concentrated thought
18 Charm|           philosophy.~7 As no two words are precise equivalents (
19 Charm|          be allowed to employ two words—sometimes when the two meanings
20 Charm|         over-precise rendering of words and forms of speech.~8 There
21 Charm|       construction, wrong uses of words. They also contain historical
22 Charm|        repeats in nearly the same words,— ‘whereas in the Republic
23 Charm|    transient, in whatever form of words expressed, are always maintained
24 Charm|           procedure. For he takes words without regard to their
25 Charm|        himself when he says that ‘words are more plastic than wax’ (
26 Charm|     Scripture,’ in which isolated words are separated from their
27 Charm|         error is nearly the same:—words are taken out of their natural
28 Charm|        from Hesiod assigns to the words ‘doing’ and ‘work’ an exclusively
29 Charm|           exactness in the use of words, turns aside from them and
30 Charm|        vainly trying to define in words. In a similar spirit we
31 Charm|         and these charms are fair words; and by them temperance
32 Charm|       time making me swear to his words, ‘Let no one, however rich,
33 Charm|          let us see whether these words have any meaning; and first
34 Charm|         point is not who said the words, but whether they are true
35 Charm|           know the meaning of the words ‘doing his own business.’~
36 Charm| understand the meaning of his own words, because you do not understand
37 Charm|      temperance I define in plain words to be the doing of good