Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|    which are included both the rules of Gorgias and the eristic
 2 Phaedr|  Gorgias, and others, who have rules for everything, and who
 3 Phaedr|     not given by any technical rules, but is the gift of genius.
 4 Phaedr|      dialectic, but not by the rules of the rhetoricians.~In
 5 Phaedr|   considered by them. The true rules of composition, which are
 6 Phaedr|       one after another to the rules of probability, this sort
 7 Phaedr|     which is devoid of reason, rules in us and drags us to pleasure,
 8 Phaedr|      loss of his property; the rules and proprieties of life,
 9 Phaedr| SOCRATES: Shall we discuss the rules of writing and speech as
10 Phaedr|     which can be brought under rules of art, must be a fine thing;
11 Phaedr|      same sort?~SOCRATES: Yes, rules of correct diction and many
12 Phaedr|        set forth or treated by rules of art, whether in speaking
13 Phaedr|       admit that they write by rules of art?~PHAEDRUS: What is
14 Phaedr|        to proceed according to rules of art.~PHAEDRUS: Let me
15 Phaedr|     declares that he speaks by rules of art, he who says ‘I don’
16 Phaedr|  handle arguments according to rules of art, as far as their