Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|        before we can attach any serious meaning to his words. Had
 2 Phaedr|        his life Plato was quite serious in maintaining a former
 3 Phaedr|      may believe that Plato was serious in his conception of the
 4 Phaedr|  transmigration. Was he equally serious in the rest? For example,
 5 Phaedr|    figure of the chariot. Is he serious, again, in regarding love
 6 Phaedr|         Phaedo, Symp.) Or is he serious in holding that each soul
 7 Phaedr|      generally. He is much more serious in distinguishing men from
 8 Phaedr|   inclined to ask whether he is serious: Is he not rather using
 9 Phaedr|       new and old are liable to serious misconstruction, as he elsewhere
10 Phaedr|     author; and so putting on a serious face, he proceeds to display
11 Phaedr|      the truth may, without any serious purpose, steal away the
12 Phaedr|        man who can be amused by serious talk, and can discourse
13 Phaedr| Phaedrus. But nobler far is the serious pursuit of the dialectician,
14 Phaedr|   necessarily much which is not serious, and that neither poetry
15 Phaedr|      higher name, befitting the serious pursuit of their life.~PHAEDRUS: