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1 Intro|  beautiful and the good. The same passion which may wallow in the
2 Intro|        male loves; (7) the ruling passion of Socrates for dialectics,
3 Intro|            To most men reason and passion appear to be antagonistic
4 Intro|       imagination only. Yet this ‘passion of the reason’ is the theme
5 Intro| combination of the most degrading passion with the desire of virtue
6 Intro|    romance in the Greek mind. The passion of love took the spurious
7 Text |      protect me, Agathon; for the passion of this man has grown quite
8 Text |           of the same madness and passion in your longing after wisdom.