Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|           And what is good or bad writing or speaking? While the sun
 2 Phaedr|          consider the true use of writing. There is an old Egyptian
 3 Phaedr|           Theuth, the inventor of writing, showing his invention to
 4 Phaedr|          gathered the lesson that writing is inferior to speech. For
 5 Phaedr|      inner growth of the mind, by writing only, if at all, as a remedy
 6 Phaedr|           true order of speech or writing proceeds accordingly. Love,
 7 Phaedr|    introduction of a considerable writing of another would seem not
 8 Phaedr|        that speech is superior to writing, in which he may seem also
 9 Phaedr|        misled him. For speech and writing have really different functions;
10 Phaedr|             There may be a use in writing as a preservative against
11 Phaedr|       that speech was superior to writing. So in other ages, weary
12 Phaedr|          of making many books, of writing articles in reviews, some
13 Phaedr|         introduce into speech and writing. He sees clearly how far
14 Phaedr| cultivation, so much diligence in writing, and so little mind or real
15 Phaedr|          fashion: Lysias has been writing about a fair youth who was
16 Phaedr|           say of a bad writer—his writing is good enough for him;
17 Phaedr|    probably induce him to give up writing speeches.~SOCRATES: What
18 Phaedr|          statesmen are ashamed of writing speeches and leaving them
19 Phaedr|     politicians are so fond as of writing speeches and bequeathing
20 Phaedr|           names at the top of the writing, out of gratitude to them.~
21 Phaedr|        they value the practice of writing.~PHAEDRUS: No doubt.~SOCRATES:
22 Phaedr|      disgrace in the mere fact of writing.~PHAEDRUS: Certainly not.~
23 Phaedr|           we discuss the rules of writing and speech as we were proposing?~
24 Phaedr|          confined to speaking and writing in lawsuits, and to speaking
25 Phaedr|            whether in speaking or writing. But the writers of the
26 Phaedr|         our method of reading and writing, can we admit that they
27 Phaedr|           speaking or teaching or writing them, and yet declares that
28 Phaedr|      propriety and impropriety of writing.~PHAEDRUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
29 Phaedr|        Ammon, who should leave in writing or receive in writing any
30 Phaedr|          in writing or receive in writing any art under the idea that
31 Phaedr|       certain; or who deemed that writing was at all better than knowledge
32 Phaedr|           feeling, Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting;
33 Phaedr|          censured, and his art of writing, and his discourses, and
34 Phaedr|        particulars of which he is writing or speaking, and is able
35 Phaedr|         passed on the speaking or writing of discourses, and how they
36 Phaedr|   performance, the fact of his so writing is only a disgrace to him,
37 Phaedr|          which is the true way of writing, is there clearness and