Dialogue

 1 Craty|  standard. They have often the beauty of poetry, but they have
 2 Craty|       and Republic of absolute beauty and good; but he never supposed
 3 Craty|       is also the principle of beauty; and which doing the works
 4 Craty|       which doing the works of beauty, is therefore rightly called
 5 Craty|        For is there not a true beauty and a true good, which is
 6 Craty|     always good? Can the thing beauty be vanishing away from us
 7 Craty|    proportion. As in things of beauty, as in all nature, in the
 8 Craty| especially in poetry, in which beauty and expressiveness are given
 9 Craty|     may be a lesser element of beauty in such passages. The same
10 Craty|        they lack some power or beauty or expressiveness or precision
11 Craty| SOCRATES: And the principle of beauty does the works of beauty?~
12 Craty|       beauty does the works of beauty?~HERMOGENES: Of course.~
13 Craty|    Then mind is rightly called beauty because she does the works
14 Craty|        improper and spoils the beauty and formation of the word:
15 Craty|      is or is not any absolute beauty or good, or any other absolute
16 Craty|      Then let us seek the true beauty: not asking whether a face
17 Craty|        us ask whether the true beauty is not always beautiful.~
18 Craty|      can we rightly speak of a beauty which is always passing