Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|     beyond the heavens, who can tell? There is an essence formless,
 2 Phaedr|     rest.’ And lastly, he might tell how, after a time at no
 3 Phaedr|      parties sometimes agree to tell lies’? Is not pleading ‘
 4 Phaedr|        it; but I beseech you to tell me, Socrates, do you believe
 5 Phaedr|         such enquiries; shall I tell you why? I must first know
 6 Phaedr|    those who will be modest and tell no tales; nor to those who
 7 Phaedr|       the god of friendship, to tell me whether you think that
 8 Phaedr|        plane-tree, I will never tell you another; never let you
 9 Phaedr|      Proceed.~SOCRATES: Shall I tell you what I will do?~PHAEDRUS:
10 Phaedr|        can deny.~And now let us tell what advantage or disadvantage
11 Phaedr|    nature like his own, when we tell of the petty causes of lovers’
12 Phaedr|       or none. And I might also tell you how the Sibyl and other
13 Phaedr|        with the madman.~I might tell of many other noble deeds
14 Phaedr|       us leave them. And do you tell me, instead, what are plaintiff
15 Phaedr| SOCRATES: Capital. But will you tell me whether I defined love
16 Phaedr|         to one another, he will tell the reasons of his arrangement,
17 Phaedr|   details; but I should like to tell you generally, as far as
18 Phaedr|       or that way,’ and he will tell you why. The pupil must
19 Phaedr|    nothing.~SOCRATES: Suppose I tell you something which somebody
20 Phaedr|        that both parties should tell lies: the coward should
21 Phaedr|        to him?~SOCRATES: Let us tell him that, before he appeared,
22 Phaedr|       but I wish that you would tell me what you say that you
23 Phaedr|         rhetoric enough. Go and tell Lysias that to the fountain
24 Phaedr| Certainly.~SOCRATES: Now go and tell this to your companion.~