Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|        together the frame of his discourse loosely and imperfectly,
 2 Phaedr|         also the deeper theme of discourse. The true knowledge of things
 3 Phaedr|      clue when, in using his own discourse afterwards as the text for
 4 Phaedr|          the whole of the second discourse of Socrates is only an allegory,
 5 Phaedr|   sophistry and rhetoric? We can discourse and write about poems and
 6 Phaedr|       Lysias gave you a feast of discourse?~PHAEDRUS: You shall hear,
 7 Phaedr|      learned by heart the entire discourse, unless it was unusually
 8 Phaedr|        he saw a certain lover of discourse who had a similar weakness;—
 9 Phaedr|       him. But when the lover of discourse begged that he would repeat
10 Phaedr|         I suspect, is the actual discourse. Now, much as I love you,
11 Phaedr|         do you think? Is not the discourse excellent, more especially
12 Phaedr|         mind where you heard the discourse or from whom; let that be
13 Phaedr|       that unless you repeat the discourse here in the face of this
14 Phaedr|     conquered; the poor lover of discourse has no more to say.~PHAEDRUS:
15 Phaedr|      face and gallop through the discourse as fast as I can, for if
16 Phaedr|         perceive the drift of my discourse; but as every spoken word
17 Phaedr|           SOCRATES: Your love of discourse, Phaedrus, is superhuman,
18 Phaedr|      delay, but to write another discourse, which shall prove that ‘
19 Phaedr| compelled by me to write another discourse on the same theme.~SOCRATES:
20 Phaedr|      fair youth, that the former discourse was the word of Phaedrus,
21 Phaedr|       large and more than mortal discourse, let me speak briefly, and
22 Phaedr|         not for the pleasures of discourse? Surely not for the sake
23 Phaedr|      framed the remainder of his discourse. Suppose we read his beginning
24 Phaedr|        you will allow that every discourse ought to be a living creature,
25 Phaedr|          Can this be said of the discourse of Lysias? See whether you
26 Phaedr| clearness and consistency to the discourse, the speaker should define
27 Phaedr|    justly reviled; and the other discourse leading us to the madness
28 Phaedr|         by serious talk, and can discourse merrily about justice and
29 Phaedr|  discover the different modes of discourse which are adapted to different