Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|           all of us there are two principles—a better and a worse—reason
 2 Phaedr|       will be found to embody two principles: first, that of synthesis
 3 Phaedr|        written word, and that the principles of justice and truth when
 4 Phaedr| compositions are based upon these principles, then they are not only
 5 Phaedr|      framed upon real dialectical principles. But dialectic is not rhetoric;
 6 Phaedr|     politics, who thinks of first principles and of true ideas? We avowedly
 7 Phaedr|       their indifference to first principles, their stupidity, their
 8 Phaedr|        are two guiding and ruling principles which lead us whither they
 9 Phaedr|         any such insight into his principles of composition.~SOCRATES:
10 Phaedr|        the hour were involved two principles of which we should be too
11 Phaedr|         until you arrive at first principles; for, as I said at first,
12 Phaedr|         we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness
13 Phaedr|        seriousness, and that such principles are a man’s own and his