Phaedrus
   Part
 1 Intro|       is to the effect that the non-lover ought to be accepted rather
 2 Intro|    ironically the person of the non-lover (who is a lover all the
 3 Intro|      other question— How is the non-lover to be distinguished from
 4 Intro|         how many advantages the non-lover has over the lover. The
 5 Intro|        the end; the ‘other’ or ‘non-lover’ part of the speech had
 6 Intro|         do in his praise of the non-lover? He has said his say and
 7 Intro|         joke, to show that the ‘non-lover’s’ love is better than the ‘
 8 Text |     ingeniously proved that the non-lover should be accepted rather
 9 Text |         lover differed from the non-lover. Let me begin at the beginning.~
10 Text |      very ample return. But the non-lover has no such tormenting recollections;
11 Text |      has not been lost; but the non-lover is more his own master,
12 Text |   kindred ever yet censured the non-lover, or thought that he was
13 Text |        you should indulge every non-lover. To which I reply that not
14 Text |  praising the discretion of the non-lover and blaming the indiscretion
15 Text | disordered in his wits than the non-lover; if in what remains you
16 Text |     that he ought to accept the non-lover rather than the lover; his
17 Text |         is whether the lover or non-lover is to be preferred, let
18 Text |       be distinguished from the non-lover? Let us note that in every
19 Text |     ensue from the lover or the non-lover to him who accepts their
20 Text |     lover instead of a sensible non-lover; and that in making such
21 Text |     advantages of accepting the non-lover. Why do you not proceed?~
22 Text |       to add the praises of the non-lover what will become of me?
23 Text |        I will only add that the non-lover has all the advantages in
24 Text |        accepted rather than the non-lover.~PHAEDRUS: Be assured that
25 Text |         not, he should accept a non-lover before he knows what he
26 Text |     beloved ought to accept the non-lover when he might have the lover,
27 Text |   Whereas the attachment of the non-lover, which is alloyed with a
28 Text |    lover and the other that the non-lover ought to be accepted.~PHAEDRUS: