Dialogue

 1 Phaedo|         or gave an expression in words to a cherished instinct.
 2 Phaedo|        and can form no idea. The words or figures of speech which
 3 Phaedo|       not realities to them, but words or ideas; the outward symbols
 4 Phaedo|      which he himself is. In the words of the Timaeus, he is good,
 5 Phaedo|       believe that the fewer our words the better. At the approach
 6 Phaedo|         of ideas was also one of words, it is not surprising that
 7 Phaedo|       have grasped, as a play of words only. But the truth is,
 8 Phaedo|    turning away, and also by the words of Socrates to his disciples: ‘
 9 Phaedo|    mechanical force. How far the words attributed to Socrates were
10 Phaedo|      died so fearlessly, and his words and bearing were so noble
11 Phaedo|          same or nearly the same words: ‘Cultivate and make music,’
12 Phaedo|     should not only put together words, but should invent stories,
13 Phaedo|        was obscure, Socrates.~My words, too, are only an echo;
14 Phaedo|         many when they hear your words will say how truly you have
15 Phaedo|        with the exception of the words ‘they have found them out’;
16 Phaedo|       which they will express in words something like the following? ‘
17 Phaedo|      pure. These are the sort of words, Simmias, which the true
18 Phaedo|      meaning, as I interpret the words, ‘the true philosophers.’
19 Phaedo|          not always expressed in words—they are really generated
20 Phaedo|          and Simmias spoke a few words to one another. And Socrates
21 Phaedo|         in which he received the words of the young men, and then
22 Phaedo| represents Odysseus doing in the words—~‘He beat his breast, and
23 Phaedo|       and try the mettle of your words. Here lies the point:—You
24 Phaedo|        go back to those familiar words which are in the mouth of
25 Phaedo|          exceed Socrates, as the words may seem to imply, because
26 Phaedo|        answer my question in the words in which I ask it: let me
27 Phaedo|     which Homer describes in the words,—~‘Far off, where is the
28 Phaedo|          to comfort himself with words like these, which is the
29 Phaedo|        though I have spoken many words in the endeavour to show
30 Phaedo|      joys of the blessed,— these words of mine, with which I was
31 Phaedo|     grave or bury him; for false words are not only evil in themselves,
32 Phaedo|         When he had spoken these words, he arose and went into
33 Phaedo|      patience. When we heard his words we were ashamed, and refrained
34 Phaedo|          said—they were his last words—he said: Crito, I owe a