Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|         company of the Gods. And men in general recall only with
 2 Phaedr|   departures from truth by which men are most easily deceived,
 3 Phaedr|       dialectician, that king of men. They are effected by dialectic,
 4 Phaedr|          consider the natures of men’s souls as the physician
 5 Phaedr|         that he would only spoil men’s memories and take away
 6 Phaedr|          to the natures of other men, he cannot be a good orator;
 7 Phaedr|        natures and characters of men, which Socrates at the commencement
 8 Phaedr|       Plato says of the loves of men must be transferred to the
 9 Phaedr|       such as makes the names of men and women famous, from domestic
10 Phaedr|         souls of gods as well as men under the figure of two
11 Phaedr|          passed in many forms of men and animals, is spent in
12 Phaedr|        bodily delights. ‘But all men cannot receive this saying’:
13 Phaedr|          way of parallelism with men? The latter is the more
14 Phaedr|        serious in distinguishing men from animals by their recognition
15 Phaedr|          different characters of men by referring them back to
16 Phaedr|      Plato speaks is the love of men or of women. It is really
17 Phaedr|         that friendships between men were a more sacred tie,
18 Phaedr|      influence over the lives of men. And these two, though opposed,
19 Phaedr|          spiritually discerned,’ men feel that in pictures and
20 Phaedr|        in dissecting them? Young men, like Phaedrus, are enamoured
21 Phaedr|          into the ‘characters of men.’ Once more, has not medical
22 Phaedr|   epistles known and read of all men.’ There may be a use in
23 Phaedr|          or ‘the saying of wiser men than ourselves that a man
24 Phaedr| rhetoricians from ancient famous men and women such as Homer
25 Phaedr|         If at any time the great men of the world should die
26 Phaedr|          They may bring gifts to men such as the world has never
27 Phaedr|          were to suppose no more men of genius to be produced,
28 Phaedr|   formerly that ‘the thoughts of men are widened with the process
29 Phaedr|    nature will tend to awaken in men larger and more liberal
30 Phaedr|      lover of knowledge, and the men who dwell in the city are
31 Phaedr|         what is hateful to other men, in order to please his
32 Phaedr|       always thinking that other men are as emulous of him as
33 Phaedr|    exceed him in wealth, or with men of education, lest they
34 Phaedr|         with you. Ancient sages, men and women, who have spoken
35 Phaedr|      sufficiently evident to all men, that he desires above all
36 Phaedr|        the eyes both of gods and men. Consider this, fair youth,
37 Phaedr|      might be buying honour from men at the price of sinning
38 Phaedr|          and a god?~PHAEDRUS: So men say.~SOCRATES: But that
39 Phaedr|    chiefest blessings granted to men. For prophecy is a madness,
40 Phaedr| generation or of relation, which men call existence, but knowledge
41 Phaedr|         here when in the form of men. And at the end of the first
42 Phaedr|         whom I am talking, is by men called love, and among the
43 Phaedr|          they may impart them to men.~PHAEDRUS: What gifts do
44 Phaedr|       cannot.~SOCRATES: And when men are deceived and their notions
45 Phaedr|    PHAEDRUS: Yes, they are royal men; but their art is not the
46 Phaedr|          of rhetoric which these men teach and of which they
47 Phaedr|       Thirdly, having classified men and speeches, and their
48 Phaedr|        or is a question in which men are concerned who are just
49 Phaedr|        for that in courts of law men literally care nothing about
50 Phaedr|         he was assaulted by more men than one; the other should
51 Phaedr|       speaking and acting before men, but in order that he may
52 Phaedr|       there is a saying of wiser men than ourselves, that a man
53 Phaedr|       much about the opinions of men?~PHAEDRUS: Your question
54 Phaedr|        prophetic utterances. The men of old, unlike in their
55 Phaedr|        disgrace to him, whatever men may say. For not to know