Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|        intellectual helpmate or friend of man (except in the rare
 2 Phaedr| Socrates, is the son of his old friend Cephalus? Or that Isocrates
 3 Phaedr|         morning; and our common friend Acumenus tells me that it
 4 Phaedr|    destiny? But let me ask you, friend: have we not reached the
 5 Phaedr|    SOCRATES: Very true, my good friend; and I hope that you will
 6 Phaedr|          you are left without a friend in the world; or if, out
 7 Phaedr|        lover only can be a firm friend? reflect:—if this were true,
 8 Phaedr|      you should invite not your friend, but the beggar and the
 9 Phaedr|       in the tale which my good friend here desires me to rehearse,
10 Phaedr|     rehearse, in order that his friend whom he always deemed wise
11 Phaedr|        youth. Listen:—~Thus, my friend, we have declared and defined
12 Phaedr|       that I was in error. O my friend, how prophetic is the human
13 Phaedr|       saying that the temperate friend is to be chosen rather than
14 Phaedr|    recognises that the inspired friend is worth all other friends
15 Phaedr|     embraces him as his dearest friend; and, when they are side
16 Phaedr|       are much mistaken in your friend if you imagine that he is
17 Phaedr|        is not even a ridiculous friend better than a cunning enemy?~
18 Phaedr|     will say no more about your friend’s speech lest I should give
19 Phaedr|        a person to come to your friend Eryximachus, or to his father
20 Phaedr|       he would answer: ‘My good friend, he who would be a harmonist
21 Phaedr|      Charmides.)~SOCRATES: Yes, friend, and he was right:—still,
22 Phaedr|   PHAEDRUS: But there is also a friend of yours who ought not to