Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|         speaking is to know and speak the truth; as a Spartan
 2 Phaedr|      texts which may help us to speak and to think. The names
 3 Phaedr|   Perhaps he would be afraid to speak of them;—the one vox populi,
 4 Phaedr|       with their fellow-men, to speak heart to heart, to speak
 5 Phaedr|        speak heart to heart, to speak and act only, and not to
 6 Phaedr|     will not let me off until I speak in some fashion or other;
 7 Phaedr|    therefore my best plan is to speak as I best can.~SOCRATES:
 8 Phaedr|    himself; I thought, though I speak under correction, that he
 9 Phaedr|         Who, for example, could speak on this thesis of yours
10 Phaedr|       had me, and you must just speak ‘as you best can.’ Do not
11 Phaedr|   myself, and he was wanting to speak, but he gave himself airs.’
12 Phaedr|        that he shall. You shall speak the praises of the lover,
13 Phaedr|        I believe you.~PHAEDRUS: Speak, and fear not.~SOCRATES:
14 Phaedr|      But it would be tedious to speak of what every one knows.~
15 Phaedr|        mortal discourse, let me speak briefly, and in a figure.
16 Phaedr|    describe; for I must dare to speak the truth, when truth is
17 Phaedr|       the initiation of which I speak into the mysteries of true
18 Phaedr|      about which he is going to speak?~PHAEDRUS: And yet, Socrates,
19 Phaedr|      forced any man to learn to speak in ignorance of the truth!
20 Phaedr|        he will never be able to speak about anything as he ought
21 Phaedr|         anything as he ought to speak unless he have a knowledge
22 Phaedr| generalization; they help me to speak and to think. And if I find
23 Phaedr|        who teaches his pupil to speak scientifically, will particularly
24 Phaedr|       knows also when he should speak and when he should refrain,
25 Phaedr|         Do you know how you can speak or act about rhetoric in
26 Phaedr|       itself, and knows when to speak and when to be silent.~PHAEDRUS:
27 Phaedr|         words which can neither speak for themselves nor teach