Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|  chirruping around may carry our words to the Muses, who are their
 2 Phaedr|       order or connection in his words any more than in a nursery
 3 Phaedr|    adaptation, but uses the same words for all. It is not a legitimate
 4 Phaedr|          and putters together of words. This is the message which
 5 Phaedr|      parts embroidered with fine words which are not in Socrates’
 6 Phaedr|       and he gives weight to his words by going back to general
 7 Phaedr|       any serious meaning to his words. Had he lived in our times
 8 Phaedr|           a little parodying the words of Pausanias in the Symposium, ‘
 9 Phaedr|       might describe in eloquent words the nature of such a union;
10 Phaedr|     appropriate to ourselves the words of Plato. The use of such
11 Phaedr|         and justice—or, in other words, the assertion of the essentially
12 Phaedr|          carved, or described in words only, we have not the substance
13 Phaedr| essential nature of man; and his words apply equally to the modern
14 Phaedr|          may further compare the words of St. Paul, ‘Written not
15 Phaedr|   degenerate into fable? Why did words lose their power of expression?
16 Phaedr|          to exist. It had spread words like plaster over the whole
17 Phaedr|        of distinguishing between words and things. It was so hopelessly
18 Phaedr|     import,’ as I may say in the words of Pindar, ‘than any business’?~
19 Phaedr|        me and of many a man; his words would be quite refreshing,
20 Phaedr|         I did not learn the very words—O no; nevertheless I have
21 Phaedr|         observed to exchange two words they are supposed to meet
22 Phaedr|        you. For they praise your words and actions in a wrong way;
23 Phaedr|       times, either from want of words or from want of pains; and
24 Phaedr|       rather than the lover; his words were as follows:—~‘All good
25 Phaedr|      have a very unusual flow of words.~SOCRATES: Listen to me,
26 Phaedr|         noble thing; for the two words, mantike and manike, are
27 Phaedr|         be for my good, may your words come to pass. But why did
28 Phaedr|         the truth.~SOCRATES: The words of the wise are not to be
29 Phaedr|       that you read me the first words of Lysias’ speech.~PHAEDRUS: ‘
30 Phaedr|        rhetorical error of those words?~PHAEDRUS: Yes.~SOCRATES:
31 Phaedr|        that I may have his exact words.~PHAEDRUS: ‘You know how
32 Phaedr|        any more connexion in his words than in the epitaph which
33 Phaedr|         the right application of words and training.~PHAEDRUS:
34 Phaedr|         with pen and ink, sowing words which can neither speak
35 Phaedr|          sows and plants therein words which are able to help themselves