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 1 Intro|         only of lovers and their loves would be invincible. For
 2 Intro|         And there have been true loves not only of men but of women
 3 Intro|        either. For there are two loves, as there are two Aphrodites—
 4 Intro|     common. The first of the two loves has a noble purpose, and
 5 Intro| difference of opinion about male loves. Some, like the Boeotians,
 6 Intro|      truth is that some of these loves are disgraceful and others
 7 Intro|          body also there are two loves; and the art of medicine
 8 Intro|       tendencies of merely human loves to piety and impiety. Such
 9 Intro|       God, and find our own true loves, which rarely happens in
10 Intro|      Eleans for encouraging male loves; (7) the ruling passion
11 Intro|   naturally the upholder of male loves, which, like all the other
12 Intro|      which he attributes to such loves as motives to virtue and
13 Intro|   earnest in the defence of such loves; and he speaks of them as
14 Intro|    pervades them both. There are loves and strifes of the body
15 Intro|        nature: thirdly, that the loves of this world are an indistinct
16 Intro|      righteousness; or of divine loves under the figure of human (
17 Intro|         have us absorb all other loves and desires in the love
18 Intro|        the power ascribed to the loves of man in the speech of
19 Text |      made up of lovers and their loves (compare Rep.), they would
20 Text |         but since there are more Loves than one,—should have begun
21 Text |      goddesses there must be two Loves. And am I not right in asserting
22 Text |        the characters of the two Loves. Now actions vary according
23 Text |        held to be dishonourable; loves of youths share the evil
24 Text |           For, observe that open loves are held to be more honourable
25 Text |          is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the
26 Text |          even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself
27 Text |       improvement. But all other loves are the offspring of the
28 Text |          being unlike, they have loves and desires which are unlike;
29 Text |          as the knowledge of the loves and desires of the body,
30 Text |          as well as divine, both loves ought to be noted as far
31 Text |    divination is to see to these loves and to heal them, and divination
32 Text |  tendencies which exist in human loves. Such is the great and mighty,
33 Text |          shall find our own true loves, which rarely happens in
34 Text |        and I believe that if our loves were perfectly accomplished,
35 Text |       not possess, that which he loves and desires?~Probably not,
36 Text |     clearly, and ask: When a man loves the beautiful, what does
37 Text |    question once more: If he who loves loves the good, what is
38 Text |       once more: If he who loves loves the good, what is it then
39 Text |          what is it then that he loves?’ ‘The possession of the
40 Text |        which lovers use to their loves when they are by themselves,