Dialogue

 1 Charm|    former, and yet the life and beauty of the style are impaired
 2 Charm|      Having a greater force and beauty than other language, and
 3 Charm|    noted (1) The Greek ideal of beauty and goodness, the vision
 4 Charm|    later period; and a youthful beauty and grace which is wanting
 5 Charm|        remarkable for wisdom or beauty, or both. Critias, glancing
 6 Charm|     advanced guard of the great beauty, as he is thought to be,
 7 Charm|         quite astonished at his beauty and stature; all the world
 8 Charm|         not only pre-eminent in beauty among his equals, but also
 9 Charm|      other poets, as famous for beauty and virtue and all other
10 Charm|     ambassador, for stature and beauty; that whole family is not
11 Charm| dishonour to any of them. If to beauty you add temperance, and
12 Charm|        the blush heightened his beauty, for modesty is becoming
13 Charm|        which is not the love of beauty, but of itself and of other
14 Charm|        be swift, and he who has beauty will be beautiful, and he
15 Charm|     sorry—that you, having such beauty and such wisdom and temperance