Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|      knowledge, and of every other good, that he may have him all
 2 Phaedr|    correction under the earth, the good to places of joy in heaven.
 3 Phaedr|       being a bad one.~And what is good or bad writing or speaking?
 4 Phaedr|           earth.~The first rule of good speaking is to know and
 5 Phaedr|          which makes things appear good and evil, like and unlike,
 6 Phaedr|      pleasure. Prodicus showed his good sense when he said that
 7 Phaedr|            and that the aim of the good man should not be to please
 8 Phaedr| fellow-servants, but to please his good masters who are the gods.
 9 Phaedr|          other men, he cannot be a good orator; also, that the living
10 Phaedr|     speaking and the nature of the good; the Sophist between the
11 Phaedr|          haunt of sailors to which good manners were unknown. The
12 Phaedr|         the abstract; in that, all good and truth, all the hopes
13 Phaedr|          as dependent on their own good conduct in the successive
14 Phaedr| associations, which as a matter of good taste should be banished,
15 Phaedr|           fellow-servants, but his good and noble masters,’ like
16 Phaedr|           enthusiastic love of the good, the true, the one, the
17 Phaedr|            are there any traces of good sense or originality, or
18 Phaedr|           neither can there be any good prose. It had no great characters,
19 Phaedr|     PHAEDRUS: What do you mean, my good Socrates? How can you imagine
20 Phaedr|            SOCRATES: Very true, my good friend; and I hope that
21 Phaedr|      imagine that the desires were good which he conceived when
22 Phaedr|           and is desirous of solid good, and not of the opinion
23 Phaedr|         them, and is an earnest of good things to come.~Further,
24 Phaedr|   principle, we ought always to do good, not to the most virtuous,
25 Phaedr|       could make another speech as good as that of Lysias, and different.
26 Phaedr|            me in the tale which my good friend here desires me to
27 Phaedr|       words were as follows:—~‘All good counsel begins in the same
28 Phaedr|           desire the beautiful and good. Now in what way is the
29 Phaedr|           life is pleasure and not good, will keep and train the
30 Phaedr|         another.~PHAEDRUS: That is good news. But what do you mean?~
31 Phaedr|         diviner, though not a very good one, but I have enough religion
32 Phaedr|          bad writer—his writing is good enough for him; and I am
33 Phaedr|           SOCRATES: Only think, my good Phaedrus, what an utter
34 Phaedr|          haunt of sailors to which good manners were unknown—he
35 Phaedr|           sent by the gods for any good to lover or beloved; if
36 Phaedr|       foulness and the opposite of good, wastes and falls away.
37 Phaedr|    distinguished from the ordinary good man who gains wings in three
38 Phaedr|           first thousand years the good souls and also the evil
39 Phaedr|          and one of the horses was good and the other bad: the division
40 Phaedr|            be friendship among the good. And the beloved when he
41 Phaedr|        with you, if this be for my good, may your words come to
42 Phaedr|     speech-making, and not thought good enough to write, then he
43 Phaedr|          proposing?~PHAEDRUS: Very good.~SOCRATES: In good speaking
44 Phaedr|            Very good.~SOCRATES: In good speaking should not the
45 Phaedr|       judgment; nor with the truly good or honourable, but only
46 Phaedr|         the place of a horse, puts good for evil, being himself
47 Phaedr|            with a horse, but about good which he confounds with
48 Phaedr|           PHAEDRUS: The reverse of good.~SOCRATES: But perhaps rhetoric
49 Phaedr|            great as well as small, good and bad alike, and is in
50 Phaedr|          make the same things seem good to the city at one time,
51 Phaedr|        another time the reverse of good?~PHAEDRUS: That is true.~
52 Phaedr|            happen to afford a very good example of the way in which
53 Phaedr|         also the greatest possible good?~SOCRATES: Capital. But
54 Phaedr|             PHAEDRUS: You have too good an opinion of me if you
55 Phaedr|        voice, he would answer: ‘My good friend, he who would be
56 Phaedr|           You have hit upon a very good way.~SOCRATES: Yes, that
57 Phaedr|         why. The pupil must have a good theoretical notion of them
58 Phaedr|         question is of justice and good, or is a question in which
59 Phaedr|         concerned who are just and good, either by nature or habit,
60 Phaedr|           deal of trouble, which a good man ought to undergo, not
61 Phaedr|          his first object) but his good and noble masters; and therefore
62 Phaedr|          he who knows the just and good and honourable has less
63 Phaedr|         justice and injustice, and good and evil, and not to be