Dialogue

 1 Phaedr|       is to the effect that the non-lover ought to be accepted rather
 2 Phaedr|    ironically the person of the non-lover (who is a lover all the
 3 Phaedr|      other question— How is the non-lover to be distinguished from
 4 Phaedr|         how many advantages the non-lover has over the lover. The
 5 Phaedr|        the end; the ‘other’ or ‘non-lover’ part of the speech had
 6 Phaedr|         do in his praise of the non-lover? He has said his say and
 7 Phaedr|         joke, to show that the ‘non-lover’s’ love is better than the ‘
 8 Phaedr|     ingeniously proved that the non-lover should be accepted rather
 9 Phaedr|         lover differed from the non-lover. Let me begin at the beginning.~
10 Phaedr|      very ample return. But the non-lover has no such tormenting recollections;
11 Phaedr|      has not been lost; but the non-lover is more his own master,
12 Phaedr|   kindred ever yet censured the non-lover, or thought that he was
13 Phaedr|        you should indulge every non-lover. To which I reply that not
14 Phaedr|  praising the discretion of the non-lover and blaming the indiscretion
15 Phaedr| disordered in his wits than the non-lover; if in what remains you
16 Phaedr|     that he ought to accept the non-lover rather than the lover; his
17 Phaedr|         is whether the lover or non-lover is to be preferred, let
18 Phaedr|       be distinguished from the non-lover? Let us note that in every
19 Phaedr|     ensue from the lover or the non-lover to him who accepts their
20 Phaedr|     lover instead of a sensible non-lover; and that in making such
21 Phaedr|     advantages of accepting the non-lover. Why do you not proceed?~
22 Phaedr|       to add the praises of the non-lover what will become of me?
23 Phaedr|        I will only add that the non-lover has all the advantages in
24 Phaedr|        accepted rather than the non-lover.~PHAEDRUS: Be assured that
25 Phaedr|         not, he should accept a non-lover before he knows what he
26 Phaedr|     beloved ought to accept the non-lover when he might have the lover,
27 Phaedr|   Whereas the attachment of the non-lover, which is alloyed with a
28 Phaedr|    lover and the other that the non-lover ought to be accepted.~PHAEDRUS: