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2001 Phaedr|            lover. The one encourages softness and effeminacy and exclusiveness;
2002 Phaedr|              brought up in different soils render immortal, making
2003 Phaedr|             tell you something which somebody who knows told me.~PHAEDRUS:
2004       | somewhere
2005 Phaedr|              lately altered and made sonorous by the modern introduction
2006 Phaedr|            should set small value on sons, or fathers, or mothers;
2007 Phaedr|         hearer had refused, he would sooner or later have been compelled
2008 Phaedr|          Plato was degenerating into sophistry and rhetoric? We can discourse
2009 Phaedr|             superior to a sane mind (sophrosune) for the one is only of
2010 Phaedr|             great matter, and also a sorrowful speech, or a terrible, or
2011 Phaedr|              fine precepts; for the ‘sorrows of a poor old man,’ or any
2012 Phaedr|             is moved from without is soulless; but that which is moved
2013 Phaedr|        proverb, like ‘the grapes are sour,’ applied to pleasures which
2014 Phaedr|        months the seeds which he has sown arrive at perfection?~PHAEDRUS:
2015 Phaedr|           You shall hear, if you can spare time to accompany me.~SOCRATES:
2016 Phaedr|            lovers; and there was one special cunning one, who had persuaded
2017 Phaedr|     converted into an enemy, and the spectacle may be seen of the lover
2018 Phaedr|         recent, and who has been the spectator of many glories in the other
2019 Phaedr|          require discussion and high speculation about the truths of nature;
2020 Phaedr|          reading has a practical and speculative as well as a literary interest.
2021 Phaedr|             be justly called poet or speech-maker or law-maker.~PHAEDRUS:
2022 Phaedr|            and he is done out of his speech-making, and not thought good enough
2023 Phaedr|        believe that you have found a spell with which to draw me out
2024 Phaedr|      conversation.~Phaedrus has been spending the morning with Lysias,
2025 Phaedr|         transfer his thoughts to our sphere of religion and feeling,
2026 Phaedr|          outwardly what can be only ‘spiritually discerned,’ men feel that
2027 Phaedr|              said to be the best, we spoke of the affection of love
2028 Phaedr|               Here is this lofty and spreading plane-tree, and the agnus
2029 Phaedr|            Isocrates and his school, spreads over much more than a thousand
2030 Phaedr|         other noble deeds which have sprung from inspired madness. And
2031 Phaedr|       recognized as flowing from the spurious form of love, he proceeds
2032 Phaedr|          puts up the horses in their stable, and gives them ambrosia
2033 Phaedr|              has not got beyond your stage of knowledge, for you only
2034 Phaedr|         putting up his horses at the stall, gives them ambrosia to
2035 Phaedr|              there is the midday sun standing still, as people say, in
2036 Phaedr|    reasonable, and will allow you to start with the premiss that the
2037 Phaedr|            cannot allow myself to be starved.~PHAEDRUS: Proceed.~SOCRATES:
2038 Phaedr|           SOCRATES: Then follows the statement of facts, and upon that
2039 Phaedr|              Life.~Yet in both these statements there is also contained
2040 Phaedr|               whether private man or statesman, proposes laws and so becomes
2041 Phaedr|       literary effort, and might not statesmanship be described as the ‘art
2042 Phaedr|        greatest and most influential statesmen are ashamed of writing speeches
2043 Phaedr|              meridian. Let us rather stay and talk over what has been
2044 Phaedr|          town?~PHAEDRUS: Yes, he was staying with Epicrates, here at
2045 Phaedr|         without any serious purpose, steal away the hearts of his hearers.
2046 Phaedr|           him, and again the old awe steals over him; then looking upon
2047 Phaedr|      festival, then they move up the steep to the top of the vault
2048 Phaedr|            two agree to direct their steps out of the public way along
2049 Phaedr|        reality inconsistent with the sterner rule which Plato lays down
2050 Phaedr|           down and worship. Then the stiffened wing begins to relax and
2051 Phaedr|             extinguishes rather than stimulates vulgar love,—a heavenly
2052 Phaedr|    cultivation. It has never had any stimulus to grow, or any field in
2053 Phaedr|              help; necessity and the sting of desire drive him on,
2054 Phaedr|             of the wing unfolds, and stings, and pangs of birth, like
2055 Phaedr|              that from this place we stir not until you have unbosomed
2056 Phaedr|             from the great world and stirring scenes of life and action
2057 Phaedr|             Written not on tables of stone, but on fleshly tables of
2058 Phaedr|            taken off their guard and stoop to folly unawares, and then,
2059 Phaedr|            And when they are near he stoops his head and puts up his
2060 Phaedr|          hymn in measured and solemn strain.~PHAEDRUS: I know that I
2061 Phaedr|           from the character of your strains, or because the Melians
2062 Phaedr|         condition, and is in a great strait and excitement, and in her
2063 Phaedr|             soul is oppressed at the strangeness of her condition, and is
2064 Phaedr|           melted, and as nourishment streams upon him, the lower end
2065 Phaedr|             that the dialogue is not strictly confined to a single subject,
2066 Phaedr|            may have effects not less striking, though different in character
2067 Phaedr|         requirement of unity is most stringent; nor should the idea of
2068 Phaedr|        treading on one another, each striving to be first; and there is
2069 Phaedr|         Phaedrus:—~Both speeches are strongly condemned by Socrates as
2070 Phaedr|              a union; how after many struggles the true love was found:
2071 Phaedr|         think, is also suggestive to students of rhetoric.~PHAEDRUS: In
2072 Phaedr|              is ignorant; and having studied the notions of the multitude,
2073 Phaedr|          something in a book, or has stumbled on a prescription or two,
2074 Phaedr|              is delicate rather than sturdy and strong? One brought
2075 Phaedr|               The divine madness was subdivided into four kinds, prophetic,
2076 Phaedr|             to the first I willingly submit to your better judgment,
2077 Phaedr|            and arrangement have been subtracted. There is nothing left but
2078 Phaedr|              be something, hoping to succeed in deceiving the manikins
2079 Phaedr|             nor to those who, having succeeded, will glory in their success
2080 Phaedr|             same heights, but hardly succeeds; and sometimes the head
2081 Phaedr|             boast to some one of his successes, and make a show of them
2082 Phaedr|            to others; he compels the successful lover to praise what ought
2083 Phaedr|              own good conduct in the successive stages of existence. Nor
2084 Phaedr|           which, as I think, is also suggestive to students of rhetoric.~
2085 Phaedr|            in the manner which Plato suggests. The contrast of the living
2086 Phaedr|         those who are the most eager suitors,—on that principle, we ought
2087 Phaedr|            said, and will give you a summary of the points in which the
2088 Phaedr|          sound in the air shrill and summerlike which makes answer to the
2089 Phaedr|          mean that there should be a summing up of the arguments in order
2090 Phaedr|              children, and to him we sung the hymn in measured and
2091 Phaedr|              with the process of the suns.’ They will not be ‘cribbed,
2092 Phaedr|          inclined to suppose, in the superficial manner of some ancient critics,
2093 Phaedr|              discourse, Phaedrus, is superhuman, simply marvellous, and
2094 Phaedr|              lest they should be his superiors in understanding; and he
2095 Phaedr|             your opinion needs to be supplied, ask and I will answer.’~
2096 Phaedr|           much as it is an art which supplies from the reasoning faculty
2097 Phaedr|     ingenious case of this sort: —He supposes a feeble and valiant man
2098 Phaedr|            speeches proceed upon the supposition that love is and ought to
2099 Phaedr|             are her own kindred—that supreme desire, I say, which by
2100 Phaedr|              carried round below the surface, plunging, treading on one
2101 Phaedr|            to pierce the mists which surrounded it. It did not propose to
2102 Phaedr|           naturally suggested by the surrounding scene. They are also the
2103 Phaedr|            to reality? Let us take a survey of the professions to which
2104 Phaedr|       agreeable, more enduring, less suspicious, less hurtful, less boastful,
2105 Phaedr|          insight into the world, for sustained irony, for depth of thought,
2106 Phaedr|           Professors of Rhetoric who swarmed at Athens in the fourth
2107 Phaedr|              manly exercises and the sweat of toil, accustomed only
2108 Phaedr|        wonder that few of them ‘come sweetly from nature,’ while ten
2109 Phaedr|            end of the wing begins to swell and grow from the root upwards;
2110 Phaedr|             begun at the end, and is swimming on his back through the
2111 Phaedr|         monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent
2112 Phaedr|          that the black horse is the symbol of the sensual or concupiscent
2113 Phaedr|             to be reckoned among the symptoms of the decline. There is
2114 Phaedr|           principles: first, that of synthesis or the comprehension of
2115 Phaedr|            found in their voluminous systems. Their pretentiousness,
2116 Phaedr|             his head and puts up his tail, and takes the bit in his
2117 Phaedr|              long as water flows and tall trees grow, So long here
2118 Phaedr|             PHAEDRUS: Do you see the tallest plane-tree in the distance?~
2119 Phaedr|            that. This is not an easy task, and this, if there be such
2120 Phaedr|            which as a matter of good taste should be banished, and
2121 Phaedr|             tau is only a modern and tasteless insertion. And this is confirmed
2122 Phaedr|             the same, and the letter tau is only a modern and tasteless
2123 Phaedr|             better of him. Well, the teacher will say, is this, Phaedrus
2124 Phaedr|             is the lover, because to tease him I lay a finger upon
2125 Phaedr|            aspects of philosophy the technicalities of rhetoric are absorbed.
2126 Phaedr|             upon him to tolerate the tedium of his company even from
2127 Phaedr|          they say? Instead of losing temper and applying uncomplimentary
2128 Phaedr|             yet nature has mingled a temporary pleasure and grace in their
2129 Phaedr|             fair youth who was being tempted, but not by a lover; and
2130 Phaedr|              infinity of nature will tend to awaken in men larger
2131 Phaedr|             the form of the work has tended to obscure some of Plato’
2132 Phaedr|              other. Neither of these tendencies was favourable to literature.
2133 Phaedr|           desire which overcomes the tendency of opinion towards right,
2134 Phaedr|           rejoice in beholding their tender growth; and while others
2135 Phaedr|          divine, and which by nature tends to soar aloft and carry
2136 Phaedr|           and colleges, may increase tenfold. It is likely that in every
2137 Phaedr|          discourses which they would term laws—to all of them we are
2138 Phaedr|         ologies’ and other technical terms invented by Polus, Theodorus,
2139 Phaedr|          earth. They win the love of Terpsichore for the dancers by their
2140 Phaedr|         lover, and certainly not the terror of his enemies; which nobody
2141 Phaedr|          literatures? They cannot be tested by any criterion of truth,
2142 Phaedr|          proportion, as the ancients testify, is madness superior to
2143 Phaedr|      represent an Athenian audience (tettigessin eoikotes). The story is
2144 Phaedr|              Dialogue there are many texts which may help us to speak
2145 Phaedr|             rhetoric?~SOCRATES: Yes; thank you for reminding me:—There
2146 Phaedr|           then the author leaves the theatre in high delight; but if
2147 Phaedr|           the Hellenes call Egyptian Thebes, and the god himself is
2148 Phaedr|           Mind, which were favourite themes of Anaxagoras, and applied
2149 Phaedr|              language of some modern theologians he might be said to maintain
2150 Phaedr|           The pupil must have a good theoretical notion of them first, and
2151       | thereby
2152       | therein
2153 Phaedr|         example, could speak on this thesis of yours without praising
2154 Phaedr|      together anyhow; he has a short thick neck; he is flat-faced and
2155       | thine
2156 Phaedr|             they neither hunger, nor thirst, but from the hour of their
2157 Phaedr|            behold the beautiful one, thither in her desire she runs.
2158 Phaedr|          when his steed has not been thoroughly trained:—and this is the
2159 Phaedr|         written word. The continuous thread which appears and reappears
2160 Phaedr|           Socrates, conquered by the threat that he shall never again
2161 Phaedr|            speech, or a terrible, or threatening speech, or any other kind
2162 Phaedr|      literature was concealed a soul thrilling with spiritual emotion.
2163 Phaedr|            shut up with the emotion, throbbing as with the pulsations of
2164 Phaedr|              at last the charioteer, throwing himself backwards, forces
2165 Phaedr|         which he understands not;—he throws his arms round the lover
2166 Phaedr|            feeling of uneasiness and tickling; but when in like manner
2167 Phaedr|            full of the prickings and ticklings of desire, the obedient
2168 Phaedr|       between men were a more sacred tie, and had a more important
2169 Phaedr|          these things, then, and not till then, he is a perfect master
2170 Phaedr|     assigning a later date. (Compare Tim., Soph., Laws.) Add to this
2171 Phaedr|        morning;—and then when he was tired with sitting, he went out
2172 Phaedr|           know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show
2173 Phaedr|           their modest and befitting title.~PHAEDRUS: Very suitable.~
2174 Phaedr|   transferred to another. The double titles of several of the Platonic
2175 Phaedr|              be a lover of gymnastic toils, or a physician; the fifth
2176 Phaedr|           hardly prevail upon him to tolerate the tedium of his company
2177 Phaedr|               or the uses of a word, took the place of the aim or
2178 Phaedr|            the non-lover has no such tormenting recollections; he has never
2179 Phaedr|       perfect love of the unseen, is total abstinence from bodily delights. ‘
2180 Phaedr|            creature. The soul in her totality has the care of inanimate
2181 Phaedr|           that we have quite briefly touched upon this matter already;
2182 Phaedr|       receives from seeing, hearing, touching, perceiving him in every
2183 Phaedr|           roundness, and finish, and tournure of the language? As to the
2184 Phaedr|         charioteer. No connection is traced between the soul as the
2185 Phaedr|      Christian fathers are there any traces of good sense or originality,
2186 Phaedr|         politician, or economist, or trader; the fourth shall be a lover
2187 Phaedr|           known or invented Egyptian traditions before he went there. The
2188 Phaedr|              display of the would-be tragedian, that this is not tragedy
2189 Phaedr|             death of the three great tragedians (Frogs). After about a hundred,
2190 Phaedr|              of the eighty or ninety tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles,
2191 Phaedr|              he has escaped from the trammels of rhetoric), seems to be
2192 Phaedr|            instance and note how the transition was made from blame to praise.~
2193 Phaedr|            the permanent; nor can we translate the language of irony into
2194 Phaedr|           our proof is as follows:-~(Translated by Cic. Tus. Quaest.) The
2195 Phaedr|              the beauty of earth, is transported with the recollection of
2196 Phaedr|           loveliness would have been transporting if there had been a visible
2197 Phaedr|         times he would have made the transposition himself. But seeing in his
2198 Phaedr|      inanimate being everywhere, and traverses the whole heaven in divers
2199 Phaedr|              is a great reservoir or treasure-house of human intelligence out
2200 Phaedr|              down as memorials to be treasured against the forgetfulness
2201 Phaedr|         there is also Polus, who has treasuries of diplasiology, and gnomology,
2202 Phaedr|       abusive to him: Would they not treat him as a musician a man
2203 Phaedr|            the author of a political treatise, fancying that there is
2204 Phaedr|              be found in the endless treatises of rhetoric, however prolific
2205 Phaedr|       critics, that a dialogue which treats of love must necessarily
2206 Phaedr|          must pass through a time of trial and conflict first; in the
2207 Phaedr|       rhetoric is a mere routine and trick, not an art. Lo! a Spartan
2208 Phaedr|              are we to attribute his tripartite division of the soul to
2209 Phaedr|             in unmeaning fondness or trivial conversation; how the inferior
2210 Phaedr|              Hellas accompanied by a troop of their disciples—these
2211 Phaedr|            their memories; they will trust to the external written
2212 Phaedr|    importance, can a man be right in trusting himself to one who is afflicted
2213 Phaedr|              Do not let us exchange ‘tu quoque’ as in a farce, or
2214 Phaedr|           once written down they are tumbled about anywhere among those
2215 Phaedr|         mouth. The promised pleasure turns out to be a long and tedious
2216 Phaedr|        follows:-~(Translated by Cic. Tus. Quaest.) The soul through
2217 Phaedr|          reckoned among the princely twelve march in their appointed
2218 Phaedr|              philosopher. There is a twofold difficulty in apprehending
2219 Phaedr|             is called a glutton; the tyrannical desire of drink, which inclines
2220 Phaedr|         their lives among the thirty tyrants? Who would imagine that
2221 Phaedr|             you appear to be equally unaware of the fact that this sweet
2222 Phaedr|             belief and deploring our unbelief, seeming to prefer popular
2223 Phaedr|              stir not until you have unbosomed yourself of the speech;
2224 Phaedr|            PHAEDRUS: Clearly, in the uncertain class.~SOCRATES: Then the
2225 Phaedr|           losing temper and applying uncomplimentary epithets, as you and I have
2226 Phaedr|             SOCRATES: You seem to be unconscious, Phaedrus, that the ‘sweet
2227 Phaedr|              and they spring from an uncritical philosophy after all. ‘The
2228 Phaedr|            which a good man ought to undergo, not for the sake of speaking
2229 Phaedr|         memories and take away their understandings. From this tale, of which
2230 Phaedr|             one another: they cannot undertake any noble enterprise, such
2231 Phaedr|           the message which Phaedrus undertakes to carry to Lysias from
2232 Phaedr|            of conversation have been unduly neglected by us. But the
2233 Phaedr|         should he care to know about unearthly monsters? Engaged in such
2234 Phaedr|          lover; the germ of the wing unfolds, and stings, and pangs of
2235 Phaedr|            Phaedrus, that writing is unfortunately like painting; for the creations
2236 Phaedr|            planted them, and are not unfruitful, but have in them a seed
2237 Phaedr|         higher and a lower, holy and unholy, a love of the mind and
2238 Phaedr|      sympathy with mysticism. To the uninitiated, as he would himself have
2239 Phaedr|              laying up little wrath— unintentional offences I shall forgive,
2240 Phaedr|         received; it is a phenomenon unique in the literary history
2241 Phaedr|             whole into parts, and of uniting the parts in a whole, and
2242 Phaedr|            must have intelligence of universals, and be able to proceed
2243 Phaedr|              power and reason of the universe.~The conception of the philosopher,
2244 Phaedr|          urged on to do terrible and unlawful deeds; but at last, when
2245 Phaedr|              can prevent it becoming unmanned and enfeebled?~First there
2246 Phaedr|              allow any indulgence of unnatural lusts.~Two other thoughts
2247 Phaedr|               For this reason, it is unnecessary to enquire whether the love
2248 Phaedr|      unverified and contradictory to unpopular truths which are assured
2249 Phaedr|              pots and dishes, but of unreadable books, he might have something
2250 Phaedr|             of all, a single form of unreason; and then, as the body which
2251 Phaedr|        haunches, the one willing and unresisting, the unruly one very unwilling;
2252 Phaedr|           had their hearts turned to unrighteousness through some corrupting
2253 Phaedr|              to see by reason of the unruliness of the steeds. The rest
2254 Phaedr|         willing and unresisting, the unruly one very unwilling; and
2255 Phaedr|           any other god, while he is unspoiled and the impression lasts,
2256 Phaedr|              manner plainer than the unspoken, I had better say further
2257 Phaedr|        master in his art and I am an untaught man.~PHAEDRUS: You see how
2258 Phaedr|             discourse, unless it was unusually long, and he went to a place
2259 Phaedr|             speaker always gives one unvarying answer. And when they have
2260 Phaedr|              prefer popular opinions unverified and contradictory to unpopular
2261 Phaedr|     unresisting, the unruly one very unwilling; and when they have gone
2262 Phaedr|           they pass out of the body, unwinged, but eager to soar, and
2263 Phaedr|         asleep, and ‘appeared to the unwise’ to die, but were reunited
2264 Phaedr|              The right-hand horse is upright and cleanly made; he has
2265 Phaedr|      Calliope the eldest Muse and of Urania who is next to her, for
2266 Phaedr|           oppose him and will not be urged on to do terrible and unlawful
2267 Phaedr|            they refuse, and again he urges them on, and will scarce
2268 Phaedr|              noble animal and a most useful possession, especially in
2269 Phaedr|            his own inventions to the users of them. And in this instance,
2270 Phaedr|         always the best judge of the utility or inutility of his own
2271 Phaedr|           and they have the sweetest utterance. For many reasons, then,
2272 Phaedr|            more concentrated, and is uttered not to this or that person
2273 Phaedr|              into heroics, when only uttering a censure on the lover?
2274 Phaedr|               The Greek world became vacant, barbaric, oriental. No
2275 Phaedr|             He supposes a feeble and valiant man to have assaulted a
2276 Phaedr|             take the seeds, which he values and which he wishes to bear
2277 Phaedr|         power of understanding or of valuing them. It is doubtful whether
2278 Phaedr|          save the phrase is a little variations’); secondly, there is the
2279 Phaedr|              steep to the top of the vault of heaven. The chariots
2280 Phaedr|            poetry and mythology as a vehicle of thought and feeling.
2281 Phaedr|              attempt, not as before, veiled and ashamed, but with forehead
2282 Phaedr|              he fulfils his promise, veils his face and begins.~First,
2283 Phaedr|          rather think that you never venture even outside the gates.~
2284 Phaedr|           the purpose of it. It is a veritable ‘sham,’ having no relation
2285 Phaedr|            image which occurs in the verses of Parmenides; but it is
2286 Phaedr|       locality; according to another version of the story she was taken
2287 Phaedr|           little touch about the two versions of the story, the ironical
2288 Phaedr|         afraid of the lover, for his vexations are many, and he is always
2289 Phaedr|            load of forgetfulness and vice, and her wings fall from
2290 Phaedr|              times; or that nameless vices were prevalent at Athens
2291 Phaedr|              advances.~He who is the victim of his passions and the
2292 Phaedr|             rational soul is finally victor and master of both the steeds,
2293 Phaedr|              of pursuing pleasure in violation of nature. But he whose
2294 Phaedr|        taking hold of a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring
2295 Phaedr|        argument that Plato must have visited Egypt before he wrote the
2296 Phaedr|             not to be found in their voluminous systems. Their pretentiousness,
2297 Phaedr|             effect, and I can give a vomit and also a purge, and all
2298 Phaedr|           their prayer that he would wait until another time. When
2299 Phaedr|           earth’ and their opinions, waiting in wonder to know, and working
2300 Phaedr|               and of every other god walking in the ways of their god,
2301 Phaedr|             intending to study as he walks. The imputation is not denied,
2302 Phaedr|             to enjoy, and would fain wallow like a brute beast in sensual
2303 Phaedr|            may suggest, or his fancy wander. If each dialogue were confined
2304 Phaedr|           and looked at what he most wanted to see,— this occupied him
2305 Phaedr|              beget; he consorts with wantonness, and is not afraid or ashamed
2306 Phaedr|            she receives the sensible warm motion of particles which
2307 Phaedr|             romances, who reject the warnings of their friends or parents,
2308 Phaedr|        imperfectly, and which is the warp and which is the woof cannot
2309 Phaedr|            buy a horse and go to the wars. Neither of us knew what
2310 Phaedr|            Love himself, I desire to wash the brine out of my ears
2311 Phaedr|            and the opposite of good, wastes and falls away. Zeus, the
2312 Phaedr|             moreover he is jealously watched and guarded against everything
2313 Phaedr|           the passages of the wings, watering them and inclining them
2314 Phaedr|         bough or a bunch of fruit is waved. For only hold up before
2315 Phaedr|             argue thus: ‘How could a weak man like me have assaulted
2316 Phaedr|              also, their judgment is weakened by passion. Such are the
2317 Phaedr|             desire of the other, but weaker; he wants to see him, touch
2318 Phaedr|          discourse who had a similar weakness;—he saw and rejoiced; now
2319 Phaedr|            rhetoricians at their own weapons; he ‘an unpractised man
2320 Phaedr|             all their indelicacy and wearisomeness when he is drunk.~And not
2321 Phaedr|           writing. So in other ages, weary of literature and criticism,
2322 Phaedr|              to write. He fastens or weaves together the frame of his
2323 Phaedr|            great many holes in their web.~PHAEDRUS: Give an example.~
2324 Phaedr|             with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to
2325 Phaedr|          vicious steed goes heavily, weighing down the charioteer to the
2326       | whenever
2327 Phaedr|            may better understand the whereabouts of truth, and therefore
2328       | wherein
2329 Phaedr|              but Plato finds nothing wholesome or genuine in the purpose
2330 Phaedr|           round Attica, and over the wide world. And now having arrived,
2331 Phaedr|              the thoughts of men are widened with the process of the
2332 Phaedr|              he would like him to be wifeless, childless, homeless, as
2333 Phaedr|          honours them on earth. They win the love of Terpsichore
2334 Phaedr|       through the eyes which are the windows of the soul, come back to
2335 Phaedr|       ambition, then probably, after wine or in some other careless
2336 Phaedr|              not they held to be the wisest physicians who have the
2337 Phaedr|           him; there is the same old withered face and the remainder to
2338 Phaedr|            own. They seem to see the withering effect of criticism on original
2339 Phaedr|              improbable, ought to be withheld, and only the probabilities
2340 Phaedr|           wise will receive, and the witling disbelieve. But first of
2341 Phaedr|              of facts, and upon that witnesses; thirdly, proofs; fourthly,
2342 Phaedr|            is more disordered in his wits than the non-lover; if in
2343 Phaedr|            choice of friends than of wives—you may have more of them
2344 Phaedr|          where plagues and mightiest woes have bred in certain families,
2345 Phaedr|               SOCRATES: May not ‘the wolf,’ as the proverb says, ‘
2346 Phaedr|             age the impossibility of woman being the intellectual helpmate
2347 Phaedr|             young mankind instead of womankind, he tries to work out the
2348 Phaedr|           SOCRATES: Bless me, what a wonderfully mysterious art is this which
2349 Phaedr|               and would see into the wonders of earth and heaven, and
2350 Phaedr|            the warp and which is the woof cannot always be determined.~
2351 Phaedr|            come; the great Byzantian word-maker also speaks, if I am not
2352 Phaedr|       Euthydemus he makes fun of the word-splitting Eristics; as in the Cratylus
2353 Phaedr|              rest of the Dialogue is worked, in parts embroidered with
2354 Phaedr|       waiting in wonder to know, and working with reverence to find out
2355 Phaedr|          until the revolution of the worlds brings her round again to
2356 Phaedr|           countries less dried up or worn out than our own. They seem
2357 Phaedr|              are to be excluded. The worst of authors will say something
2358 Phaedr|           ever did or ever will sing worthily? It is such as I will describe;
2359 Phaedr|            with a still more violent wrench drags the bit out of the
2360 Phaedr|           that they have been at all wronged, are ready to kill and put
2361 Phaedr|             they might be rightly or wrongly censured— did not our previous
2362 Phaedr|            to be indicated a natural yearning of the human mind that the
2363 Phaedr|          shag-eared and deaf, hardly yielding to whip and spur. Now when
2364 Phaedr|         release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.~
2365 Phaedr|          away his lover, because his youthful companions or others slanderously
2366 Phaedr|  rhetoricians is described as in the zenith of his fame; the second