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 1 Intro|      heard of the discourses in praise of love spoken by Socrates
 2 Intro|      The successive speeches in praise of love are characteristic
 3 Intro|   understanding that you should praise them, not that you should
 4 Intro|        them—this is the sort of praise which Socrates is unable
 5 Intro|      are to be found beyond all praise). (2) It may be observed
 6 Text |       you about the speeches in praise of love, which were delivered
 7 Text |          Let Phaedrus begin the praise of Love, and good luck to
 8 Text |    should not be called upon to praise Love in such an indiscriminate
 9 Text |      which Love is deserving of praise, and then try to hymn the
10 Text |      All the gods ought to have praise given to them, but not without
11 Text |          is noble and worthy of praise. The Love who is the offspring
12 Text |         this my contribution in praise of love, which is as good
13 Text |   things which might be said in praise of Love, but this was not
14 Text |     discourse; he had a mind to praise Love in another way, unlike
15 Text |          Wherefore, if we would praise him who has given to us
16 Text |         us the benefit, we must praise the god Love, who is our
17 Text |        them. But I would rather praise the god first, and then
18 Text |     imagined that the topics of praise should be true, and that
19 Text |         knew the nature of true praise, and should speak well.
20 Text |       each of you should really praise Love, but only that you
21 Text |       that you should appear to praise him. And so you attribute
22 Text |        every imaginable form of praise which can be gathered anywhere;
23 Text |        noble and solemn hymn of praise have you rehearsed. But
24 Text | misunderstood the nature of the praise when I said that I would
25 Text |     such a strain: for I do not praise in that way; no, indeed,
26 Text |      others to do the same, and praise the power and spirit of
27 Text |         should make a speech in praise of love, and as good a one
28 Text |         the fact, and that if I praise any one but himself in his
29 Text |         no one else whom I will praise when you are of the company.~
30 Text |        Eryximachus, if you like praise Socrates.~What do you think,
31 Text |        that the meaning of your praise?~I am going to speak the
32 Text |       And now, my boys, I shall praise Socrates in a figure which
33 Text |         Socrates when I come to praise him. Moreover I have felt
34 Text |        which I might narrate in praise of Socrates; most of his
35 Text |       man.~This, friends, is my praise of Socrates. I have added
36 Text |          and I in turn ought to praise my neighbour on the right,
37 Text |        I have a great desire to praise the youth.~Hurrah! cried