Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|      or ever could be written better. Socrates does not think
 2 Phaedr|      him, could make a speech better than that of Lysias on the
 3 Phaedr|    there are two principles—a better and a worse—reason and desire,
 4 Phaedr|        part of the speech had better be understood, for if in
 5 Phaedr|     sometimes be a great deal better than sense. There is also
 6 Phaedr|      of the philosopher has a better remembrance of them. For
 7 Phaedr|      he said that there was a better thing than either to be
 8 Phaedr|      also, that the living is better than the written word, and
 9 Phaedr|       to consist chiefly in a better arrangement of the topics;
10 Phaedr|     the ‘non-lover’s’ love is better than the ‘lover’s.’~We may
11 Phaedr|       desire to part company. Better, he would say, a ‘little
12 Phaedr|      manners; and we lose the better half of him when we regard
13 Phaedr|    make ‘the worse appear the better cause;’ and do not ‘both
14 Phaedr| thousand years invent nothing better than Sibylline books, Orphic
15 Phaedr|    possibly once more get the better of the literary world. There
16 Phaedr|   prejudice and party; we may better understand the whereabouts
17 Phaedr|      have said more or spoken better on the same subject.~SOCRATES:
18 Phaedr|      willingly submit to your better judgment, for I am not worthy
19 Phaedr|     any one could have spoken better or more exhaustively.~SOCRATES:
20 Phaedr|   where did you hear anything better than this?~SOCRATES: I am
21 Phaedr|   promise to make another and better oration, equal in length
22 Phaedr| remains you make a longer and better speech than Lysias, and
23 Phaedr|       example, which gets the better of the higher reason and
24 Phaedr|      than the unspoken, I had better say further that the irrational
25 Phaedr|      well; and the longer the better, for the longer he is all
26 Phaedr|    verse, and therefore I had better make an end; enough.~PHAEDRUS:
27 Phaedr|      the attendant of Zeus is better able to bear the winged
28 Phaedr|    their self-control; if the better elements of the mind which
29 Phaedr|      even a ridiculous friend better than a cunning enemy?~PHAEDRUS:
30 Phaedr|    PHAEDRUS: Nothing could be better; and indeed I think that
31 Phaedr|     who inspired me, were far better rhetoricians than Lysias
32 Phaedr|      pathetic case, no one is better than the Chalcedonian giant;
33 Phaedr|    don’t believe you’ has the better of him. Well, the teacher
34 Phaedr| Egyptians wiser and give them better memories; it is a specific
35 Phaedr|       that writing was at all better than knowledge and recollection
36 Phaedr|    kind of word or speech far better than this, and having far