Dialogue

 1 Text|      it. And I was forced to say, when praising true philosophy
 2 Text|    always singing, while you say she is held in dishonour
 3 Text|  rest of mankind-must we not say that philosophy along with
 4 Text|    visit; what I have now to say is this.~He who advises
 5 Text|    not a good one, he should say so, provided that his words
 6 Text|     in need. This we did not say in plain words, for that
 7 Text|  shame upon this city. For I say that he too is an Athenian
 8 Text|    to me, and I might almost say to all mankind, they by
 9 Text|     is possible for a man to say anything positively about
10 Text|  established, I might almost say, among all mankind and would
11 Text|      to Dionysios what I did say on that occasion.~I did
12 Text|    Thus much at least, I can say about all writers, past
13 Text| writers, past or future, who say they know the things to
14 Text|    But the circle itself, we say, has nothing in either smaller
15 Text|    which is its opposite. We say also that the name is not
16 Text|      showing, fills, one may say, every man with puzzlement
17 Text|      of things, he has, so I say, neither heard nor learnt
18 Text|     to contend with many who say the opposite, and who would
19 Text|   was the same that I should say my own or that of any other
20 Text|     object that no one shall say that it is his fault, if