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1 Intro| been true loves not only of men but of women also. Such
2 Intro| women and boys as well as of men. Now the actions of lovers
3 Intro| astronomy, in the relations of men towards gods and parents
4 Intro| the peacemaker of gods and men, and works by a knowledge
5 Intro| sexes were originally three, men, women, and the union of
6 Intro| life. Now the characters of men differ accordingly as they
7 Intro| Wherefore let us exhort all men to piety, that we may obtain
8 Intro| walking on the skulls of men, but in their hearts and
9 Intro| or suffer wrong; for all men serve and obey him of their
10 Intro| best in others; he makes men to be of one mind at a banquet,
11 Intro| helper, defender, saviour of men, in whose footsteps let
12 Intro| the gods the prayers of men, and to men the commands
13 Intro| the prayers of men, and to men the commands of the gods.~
14 Intro| about love? Because all men and women at a certain age
15 Intro| this extend not only to men but also to animals? Because
16 Intro| immortality; and this is why men love the immortality of
17 Intro| the unmarried or childless men; which both in affection
18 Intro| who ravishes the souls of men; the convincer of hearts
19 Intro| an equality with that of men; and he makes the singular
20 Intro| affections or actions of men, he regards as varying according
21 Intro| mythology and the opinions of men. From Phaedrus he takes
22 Intro| art could satisfy. To most men reason and passion appear
23 Intro| by the beauty of young men and boys, which was alone
24 Intro| against several of the leading men of Hellas, e.g. Cimon, Alcibiades,
25 Intro| which gained the hearts of men,—strangely fascinated by
26 Text | especially that of you rich men and traders, such conversation
27 Text | To the feasts of inferior men the good unbidden go;’~instead
28 Text | Agamemnon as the most valiant of men, he makes Menelaus, who
29 Text | wonderful among gods and men, but especially wonderful
30 Text | ought to be the guide of men who would nobly live—that
31 Text | the lover.~Love will make men dare to die for their beloved—
32 Text | alone; and women as well as men. Of this, Alcestis, the
33 Text | the gods, as well as to men, that among the many who
34 Text | such as the meaner sort of men feel, and is apt to be of
35 Text | grow. And in choosing young men to be their companions,
36 Text | I suppose, that they are men of few words in those parts,
37 Text | and forswear himself (so men say), and the gods will
38 Text | entire liberty which gods and men have allowed the lover,
39 Text | saying that to indulge good men is honourable, and bad men
40 Text | men is honourable, and bad men dishonourable:—so too in
41 Text | and harmony, they bring to men, animals, and plants health
42 Text | communion between gods and men—these, I say, are concerned
43 Text | the peacemaker of gods and men, working by a knowledge
44 Text | justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power,
45 Text | he is the best friend of men, the helper and the healer
46 Text | He could walk upright as men now do, backwards or forwards
47 Text | sacrifices and worship which men offered to them; but, on
48 Text | and improve their manners; men shall continue to exist,
49 Text | single leg.’ He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple
50 Text | being the sections of entire men or women,—and clung to that.
51 Text | looking for his other half. Men who are a section of that
52 Text | adulterous women who lust after men: the women who are a section
53 Text | the woman do not care for men, but have female attachments;
54 Text | original man, they hang about men and embrace them, and they
55 Text | Wherefore let us exhort all men to piety, that we may avoid
56 Text | application —they include men and women everywhere; and
57 Text | ground but on the heads of men:’~herein is an excellent
58 Text | nor yet upon the skulls of men, which are not so very soft,
59 Text | and souls of both gods and men, which are of all things
60 Text | he act by force. For all men in all things serve him
61 Text | empire of Zeus over gods and men, are all due to Love, who
62 Text | This is he who empties men of disaffection and fills
63 Text | helper; glory of gods and men, leader best and brightest:
64 Text | charms the souls of gods and men. Such is the speech, Phaedrus,
65 Text | replied, ‘between gods and men, conveying and taking across
66 Text | prayers and sacrifices of men, and to men the commands
67 Text | sacrifices of men, and to men the commands and replies
68 Text | what is the use of him to men?’ ‘That, Socrates,’ she
69 Text | common to all? and do all men always desire their own
70 Text | their own good, or only some men?—what say you?’ ‘All men,’
71 Text | men?—what say you?’ ‘All men,’ I replied; ‘the desire
72 Text | she rejoined, ‘are not all men, Socrates, said to love,
73 Text | whereas you say that all men are always loving the same
74 Text | For there is nothing which men love but the good. Is there
75 Text | the simple truth is, that men love the good.’ ‘Yes,’ I
76 Text | I mean to say, that all men are bringing to the birth
77 Text | possession of the good, all men will necessarily desire
78 Text | then at the love which all men have of their offspring;
79 Text | only of the ambition of men, and you will wonder at
80 Text | I am persuaded that all men do all things, and the better
81 Text | for there certainly are men who are more creative in
82 Text | this fairest and wisest of men, as I may be allowed to
83 Text | speech with those of sober men is hardly fair; and I should
84 Text | used to charm the souls of men by the power of his breath,
85 Text | be ashamed of what wise men would say if I were to refuse
86 Text | be said of other famous men, but of this strange being
87 Text | however remote, either among men who now are or who ever
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