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 1 Intro| reason why parents love their children—for the sake of immortality;
 2 Intro|     creative soul creates not children, but conceptions of wisdom
 3 Intro|   would not sooner have these children of the mind than the ordinary
 4 Intro|  vulgar by the procreation of children, may become the highest
 5 Text |    inclined to marry or beget children,—if at all, they do so only
 6 Text |      would have run for their children, and to spend money and
 7 Text | themselves to women and beget children—this is the character of
 8 Text |   than those who beget mortal children, for the children who are
 9 Text |      mortal children, for the children who are their common offspring
10 Text |   would not rather have their children than ordinary human ones?
11 Text |       them in the creation of children such as theirs, which have
12 Text |       who would not have such children as Lycurgus left behind
13 Text |  their honour for the sake of children such as theirs; which were
14 Text |    for the sake of his mortal children.~‘These are the lesser mysteries