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 1 Intro|         has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the
 2 Intro|       and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the
 3 Intro|      not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore,
 4 Intro|        wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires
 5 Intro|   beloved.~But Love desires the beautiful; and then arises the question,
 6 Intro|      What does he desire of the beautiful? He desires, of course,
 7 Intro|   course, the possession of the beautiful;—but what is given by that?
 8 Intro|       is given by that? For the beautiful let us substitute the good,
 9 Intro|     connexion of them; and from beautiful bodies he should proceed
10 Intro|     bodies he should proceed to beautiful minds, and the beauty of
11 Intro|   mystical contemplation of the beautiful and the good. The same passion
12 Text |       if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially
13 Text |        and from the Love of the beautiful, has sprung every good in
14 Text |       said that the love of the beautiful set in order the empire
15 Text |         And would you call that beautiful which wants and does not
16 Text |      you still say that love is beautiful?~Agathon replied: I fear
17 Text |        Is not the good also the beautiful?~Yes.~Then in wanting the
18 Text |        Yes.~Then in wanting the beautiful, love wants also the good?~
19 Text |        naturally a lover of the beautiful, and because Aphrodite is
20 Text |    because Aphrodite is herself beautiful, and also because he was
21 Text |      them. For wisdom is a most beautiful thing, and Love is of the
22 Text |       thing, and Love is of the beautiful; and therefore Love is also
23 Text |         think that love was all beautiful. For the beloved is the
24 Text |        the beloved is the truly beautiful, and delicate, and perfect,
25 Text | acknowledge that love is of the beautiful. But some one will say:
26 Text |       some one will say: Of the beautiful in what, Socrates and Diotima?—
27 Text |       ask: When a man loves the beautiful, what does he desire?’ I
28 Text |        I answered her ‘That the beautiful may be his.’ ‘Still,’ she
29 Text |       good” in the place of the beautiful, and repeat the question
30 Text |        with the divine, and the beautiful harmonious. Beauty, then,
31 Text |        imagine, the love of the beautiful only.’ ‘What then?’ ‘The
32 Text |      and naturally embraces the beautiful rather than the deformed
33 Text |         and at the touch of the beautiful which is ever present to
34 Text |         begin in youth to visit beautiful forms; and first, if he
35 Text |      will become a lover of all beautiful forms; in the next stage
36 Text |      who has learned to see the beautiful in due order and succession,