Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|       nothing was or ever could be written better. Socrates does not
 2 Phaedr|          living is better than the written word, and that the principles
 3 Phaedr| superiority of the spoken over the written word. The continuous thread
 4 Phaedr|            first speech was really written by Lysias is improbable.
 5 Phaedr|           king is preferred to the written law; he is supposed to be
 6 Phaedr|            say, that what is truly written is written in the soul,
 7 Phaedr|           what is truly written is written in the soul, just as what
 8 Phaedr|            the words of St. Paul, ‘Written not on tables of stone,
 9 Phaedr|           that this must have been written in the youth of Isocrates,
10 Phaedr|         must necessarily have been written in youth. As little weight
11 Phaedr|     supposing that one of them was written at least twenty years after
12 Phaedr|          be, that the Dialogue was written at some comparatively late
13 Phaedr|        when new books ceased to be written, why did hosts of grammarians
14 Phaedr|         women, who have spoken and written of these things, would rise
15 Phaedr|     speeches and leaving them in a written form, lest they should be
16 Phaedr|         will trust to the external written characters and not remember
17 Phaedr|            under the idea that the written word would be intelligible
18 Phaedr|           when they have been once written down they are tumbled about
19 Phaedr|           a soul, and of which the written word is properly no more
20 Phaedr|          he who thinks that in the written word there is necessarily
21 Phaedr|        poetry nor prose, spoken or written, is of any great value,