Dialogue

 1 Phileb|      attend to the meaning of the words, we are compelled to admit
 2 Phileb|          state of comparison. All words or ideas to which the words ‘
 3 Phileb|       words or ideas to which the words ‘gently,’ ‘extremely,’ and
 4 Phileb|          to yourself. Whether the words are actually spoken or not,
 5 Phileb|           of the process; and the words and images which are inscribed
 6 Phileb|     custom (like the use of other words which at first referred
 7 Phileb|       Utility, not exactly in the words, but in the spirit of one
 8 Phileb|          of mankind, or, in other words, to increase the sum of
 9 Phileb|         distinctions of morality. Words such as truth, justice,
10 Phileb|          human heart: to no other words can the same associations
11 Phileb|           common language. And as words influence men’s thoughts,
12 Phileb|          be dissatisfied with the words ‘utility’ or ‘pleasure’:
13 Phileb|        Let us note the remarkable words, ‘That in the divine nature
14 Phileb|           the significance of the words ‘those who said of old time
15 Phileb|           describe him in his own words as a ‘spectator of all time
16 Phileb|          be the witnesses of your words. And now, Socrates, whether
17 Phileb| laughingly in disproof of his own words: Why, here is a miracle,
18 Phileb|      think so too, but how do his words bear upon us and upon the
19 Phileb|     nothing to apprehend, for the words ‘if you are willing’ dispel
20 Phileb|       less, or are denoted by the words ‘exceedingly,’ ‘gently,’ ‘
21 Phileb|           and do you listen to my words.~PROTARCHUS: Proceed.~SOCRATES:
22 Phileb|           then suppose that these words are rashly spoken by us,
23 Phileb|           the fewest and shortest words about matters of the greatest
24 Phileb|          should like to say a few words about it.~PROTARCHUS: What
25 Phileb|           to almost to write down words in the soul, and when the
26 Phileb|    answering to true opinions and words are true, and to false opinions
27 Phileb|         and to false opinions and words false; are they not?~PROTARCHUS:
28 Phileb|        PROTARCHUS: Yes, and their words are of no mean authority.~
29 Phileb|           my release without many words;—if I promise that to-morrow