Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|           that there was a better thing than either to be short
 2 Phaedr|         well as the reason of the thing, lead us to the conclusion
 3 Phaedr|      interested, and that no such thing as a real or disinterested
 4 Phaedr|      infer from the reason of the thing, but there is no indication
 5 Phaedr|          professing to teach. The thing which is most necessary
 6 Phaedr| conversation of you and Lysias ‘a thing of higher import,’ as I
 7 Phaedr|        well he could say the same thing in two or three ways.~PHAEDRUS:
 8 Phaedr|         my way home, lest a worse thing be inflicted upon me by
 9 Phaedr|         madness which was a noble thing; for the two words, mantike
10 Phaedr|          Now what is that sort of thing but a regular piece of authorship?~
11 Phaedr|        the art will make the same thing appear to the same persons
12 Phaedr|           silver, is not the same thing present in the minds of
13 Phaedr|      rules of art, must be a fine thing; and, at any rate, is not
14 Phaedr|       purge, and all that sort of thing; and knowing all this, as
15 Phaedr|         is they regard as an easy thing which their disciples may
16 Phaedr|          is a simple or multiform thing, and if simple, then to
17 Phaedr|         to consider not whether a thing is or is not true, but who