Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|      is good or bad writing or speaking? While the sun is hot in
 2 Phaedr|         The first rule of good speaking is to know and speak the
 3 Phaedr|     this.~Enough of the art of speaking; let us now proceed to consider
 4 Phaedr|     Gorgias between the art of speaking and the nature of the good;
 5 Phaedr|        For example, when he is speaking of the soul does he mean
 6 Phaedr|       knowledge? Once more, in speaking of beauty is he really thinking
 7 Phaedr|      probably the arts both of speaking and of conversation have
 8 Phaedr|        not pleading ‘an art of speaking unconnected with the truth’?
 9 Phaedr|      true atmosphere of public speaking, in oratory. The ways of
10 Phaedr|    fair boy, or, more properly speaking, a youth; he was very fair
11 Phaedr|      he believes himself to be speaking to the same person, and
12 Phaedr|        But I told you so, I am speaking in verse, and therefore
13 Phaedr| inspired.~Thus far I have been speaking of the fourth and last kind
14 Phaedr|        good.~SOCRATES: In good speaking should not the mind of the
15 Phaedr|     ever will be a real art of speaking which is divorced from the
16 Phaedr|      heard the art confined to speaking and writing in lawsuits,
17 Phaedr|    writing in lawsuits, and to speaking in public assemblies—not
18 Phaedr|       Zeno), who has an art of speaking by which he makes the same
19 Phaedr|  observation of particulars in speaking, and not make a mistake
20 Phaedr|      his purpose to the art of speaking.~PHAEDRUS: Explain.~SOCRATES:
21 Phaedr|       rules of art, whether in speaking or writing. But the writers
22 Phaedr|       person about whom he was speaking in the abstract actually
23 Phaedr|       these points, whether in speaking or teaching or writing them,
24 Phaedr|    defence, and that always in speaking, the orator should keep
25 Phaedr|        to say about the art of speaking we should like to hear him;
26 Phaedr|   undergo, not for the sake of speaking and acting before men, but
27 Phaedr|        a true and false art of speaking.~PHAEDRUS: Certainly.~SOCRATES:
28 Phaedr|      of which he is writing or speaking, and is able to define them
29 Phaedr|        which was passed on the speaking or writing of discourses,