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 1 Intro|             before, and drinking on two successive days is such
 2 Intro|       praised either. For there are two loves, as there are two
 3 Intro|             two loves, as there are two Aphrodites—one the daughter
 4 Intro|            common. The first of the two loves has a noble purpose,
 5 Intro|            among us; and when these two customs—one the love of
 6 Intro|          maintaining that there are two kinds of love; but his art
 7 Intro|           human body also there are two loves; and the art of medicine
 8 Intro|         women, and the union of the two; and they were made round—
 9 Intro|       having four hands, four feet, two faces on a round neck, and
10 Intro|       expedient. Let us cut them in two, he said; then they will
11 Intro|           knot about the navel. The two halves went about looking
12 Intro|           There was a time when the two sexes were only one, but
13 Intro|       Socrates is explaining to the two others, who are half-asleep,
14 Intro|       ending.’~Plato transposes the two next speeches, as in the
15 Intro|             some few—perhaps one or two in a whole generation—in
16 Intro|       imperfect combinations of the two elements in teachers or
17 Intro|             him in the first of the two Dialogues which are called
18 Text |            have to make an excuse.~‘Two going together,’~he replied,
19 Text |           the Earth and Love, these two, came into being. Also Parmenides
20 Text |            surely the fairer of the two, fairer also than all the
21 Text |          one Love; but as there are two goddesses there must be
22 Text |             goddesses there must be two Loves. And am I not right
23 Text |            asserting that there are two goddesses? The elder one,
24 Text |   distinguish the characters of the two Loves. Now actions vary
25 Text |           they show to which of the two classes they respectively
26 Text |       charge of flattery. And these two customs, one the love of
27 Text |      education and wisdom, when the two laws of love are fulfilled
28 Text |           has rightly distinguished two kinds of love. But my art
29 Text |             in the human body these two kinds of love, which are
30 Text |       different. The sexes were not two as they are now, but originally
31 Text |         woman, and the union of the two, having a name corresponding
32 Text |            four feet, one head with two faces, looking opposite
33 Text |    precisely alike; also four ears, two privy members, and the remainder
34 Text |              but I will cut them in two and then they will be diminished
35 Text |          They shall walk upright on two legs, and if they continue
36 Text |             He spoke and cut men in two, like a sorb-apple which
37 Text |              After the division the two parts of man, each desiring
38 Text |      original nature, making one of two, and healing the state of
39 Text |             together, so that being two you shall become one, and
40 Text |            departed soul instead of two—I ask whether this is what
41 Text |             becoming one instead of two, was the very expression
42 Text |              I said. ‘You and I are two of them,’ she replied. ‘
43 Text |           but in a mean between the two.’ ‘What is he, Diotima?’ ‘
44 Text |           are in a mean between the two; Love is one of them. For
45 Text | well-nurtured soul, he embraces the two in one person, and to such
46 Text |            and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair
47 Text |           going on to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from
48 Text |            vessel holding more than two quarts—this he filled and
49 Text |        without them (In allusion to two proverbs.); and therefore
50 Text |       Socrates compelling the other two to acknowledge that the