Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|   their way, Phaedrus asks the opinion of Socrates respecting the
 2 Phaedr|   deriding him. Socrates is of opinion that there is small danger
 3 Phaedr|         against the advice and opinion of his friends, at a time
 4 Phaedr|      are set aside—‘the common opinion about them is enough for
 5 Phaedr|        to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as
 6 Phaedr|     your friendship. If public opinion be your dread, and you would
 7 Phaedr|     solid good, and not of the opinion of mankind. Again, the lover
 8 Phaedr|        desire or which in your opinion needs to be supplied, ask
 9 Phaedr|      but let me have your real opinion; I adjure you, by Zeus,
10 Phaedr|       am not worthy to form an opinion, having only attended to
11 Phaedr|       the other is an acquired opinion which aspires after the
12 Phaedr|       the other conquers. When opinion by the help of reason leads
13 Phaedr|      overcomes the tendency of opinion towards right, and is led
14 Phaedr|         go away, and feed upon opinion. The reason why the souls
15 Phaedr|      honourable, but only with opinion about them, and that from
16 Phaedr|      about them, and that from opinion comes persuasion, and not
17 Phaedr| PHAEDRUS: You have too good an opinion of me if you think that
18 Phaedr|       call, and rightly, in my opinion, dialecticians:— Still we
19 Phaedr|      convince him of a certain opinion;’—he who knows all this,