(...) The Symposium
    Part
501 Intro|           he takes the thought that love is stronger than death;
502 Intro|            Pausanias, that the true love is akin to intellect and
503 Intro|              from Eryximachus, that love is a universal phenomenon
504 Intro|             from Aristophanes, that love is the child of want, and
505 Intro|         want, and is not merely the love of the congenial or of the
506 Intro|            good; from Agathon, that love is of beauty, not however
507 Intro|       praises have been ascribed to Love as the author of every good;
508 Intro|            is to speak the truth of Love he must honestly confess
509 Intro|           is not a good at all: for love is of the good, and no man
510 Intro|        about the art and mystery of love. She has taught him that
511 Intro|             She has taught him that love is another aspect of philosophy.
512 Intro|             things contained in his love of Beatrice, so Plato would
513 Intro|            loves and desires in the love of knowledge. Here is the
514 Intro|            the burning intensity of love is a contradiction in nature,
515 Intro|            a higher region in which love is not only felt, but satisfied,
516 Intro|             one aspect ‘the idea is love’; under another, ‘truth.’
517 Intro|            who have been equally in love with Socrates, and like
518 Intro|            Critias for his shameful love of Euthydemus in Xenophon,
519 Intro|          Greek mind. The passion of love took the spurious form of
520 Intro|         Apollo or Antinous. But the love of youth when not depraved
521 Intro|             when not depraved was a love of virtue and modesty as
522 Intro|         degree excuses the depraved love of the body (compare Charm.;
523 Intro|              doubtless, to whom the love of the fair mind was the
524 Intro|           man to be higher than the love of woman, because altogether
525 Intro|          heavenly and philosophical love, or of the coarse Polyhymnia:’
526 Intro|           countries. But effeminate love was always condemned as
527 Intro|         Plato in which the theme of love is discussed at length.
528 Intro|             described as ‘dying for love;’ and there are not wanting
529 Intro|             sensual and sentimental love, likewise offers several
530 Text |           the speeches in praise of love, which were delivered by
531 Text |         talked of the discourses on love; and therefore, as I said
532 Text |      APOLLODORUS: Well, the tale of love was on this wise:—But perhaps
533 Text |             great and glorious god, Love, has no encomiast among
534 Text |         ever dared worthily to hymn Love’s praises! So entirely has
535 Text |          better than honour the god Love. If you agree with me, there
536 Text |          make a speech in honour of Love. Let him give us the best
537 Text |   understand nothing but matters of love; nor, I presume, will Agathon
538 Text |        Phaedrus begin the praise of Love, and good luck to him. All
539 Text |             began by affirming that Love is a mighty god, and wonderful
540 Text |            seat of all that is, And Love.’~In other words, after
541 Text |          after Chaos, the Earth and Love, these two, came into being.
542 Text |         train of gods, he fashioned Love.’~And Acusilaus agrees with
543 Text |           witnesses who acknowledge Love to be the eldest of the
544 Text |          able to implant so well as love. Of what am I speaking?
545 Text |            bravest, at such a time; Love would inspire him. That
546 Text |           the souls of some heroes, Love of his own nature infuses
547 Text |             infuses into the lover.~Love will make men dare to die
548 Text |            to die for their beloved—love alone; and women as well
549 Text |           but the tenderness of her love so far exceeded theirs,
550 Text |          the devotion and virtue of love. But Orpheus, the son of
551 Text |            like Alcestis to die for love, but was contriving how
552 Text |          was the reward of the true love of Achilles towards his
553 Text |     Patroclus—his lover and not his love (the notion that Patroclus
554 Text |           gods honour the virtue of love, still the return of love
555 Text |           love, still the return of love on the part of the beloved
556 Text |          reasons for affirming that Love is the eldest and noblest
557 Text |            be called upon to praise Love in such an indiscriminate
558 Text |              If there were only one Love, then what you said would
559 Text |           all I will tell you which Love is deserving of praise,
560 Text |           him. For we all know that Love is inseparable from Aphrodite,
561 Text |             there would be only one Love; but as there are two goddesses
562 Text |             we call common; and the Love who is her fellow-worker
563 Text |          named common, as the other love is called heavenly. All
564 Text |            in like manner not every love, but only that which has
565 Text |           and worthy of praise. The Love who is the offspring of
566 Text |             are the objects of this love which desires only to gain
567 Text |             male only; this is that love which is of youths, and
568 Text |            who are inspired by this love turn to the male, and delight
569 Text |         their attachments. For they love not boys, but intelligent
570 Text |            another of them. But the love of young boys should be
571 Text |             who bring a reproach on love; and some have been led
572 Text |          Lacedaemon the rules about love are perplexing, but in most
573 Text |           society among them, which love, above all other motives,
574 Text |      learned by experience; for the love of Aristogeiton and the
575 Text |           secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest,
576 Text |           And in the pursuit of his love the custom of mankind allows
577 Text |            argues that in Athens to love and to be loved is held
578 Text |           and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition
579 Text |            in being overcome by the love of money, or of wealth,
580 Text |          these two customs, one the love of youth, and the other
581 Text |        wisdom, when the two laws of love are fulfilled and meet in
582 Text |       honour to the lover. Nor when love is of this disinterested
583 Text |             of virtue. This is that love which is the love of the
584 Text |           is that love which is the love of the heavenly godess,
585 Text |           contribution in praise of love, which is as good as I could
586 Text |          distinguished two kinds of love. But my art further informs
587 Text |          informs me that the double love is not merely an affection
588 Text |           universal is the deity of love, whose empire extends over
589 Text |             body these two kinds of love, which are confessedly different
590 Text |            is able to separate fair love from foul, or to convert
591 Text |        eradicate and how to implant love, whichever is required,
592 Text |              music implants, making love and unison to grow up among
593 Text |    concerned with the principles of love in their application to
594 Text |            difficulty in discerning love which has not yet become
595 Text |       repeated of fair and heavenly love—the love of Urania the fair
596 Text |          fair and heavenly love—the love of Urania the fair and heavenly
597 Text |             and of preserving their love; and again, of the vulgar
598 Text |          dry, attain the harmonious love of one another and blend
599 Text |            harm; whereas the wanton love, getting the upper hand
600 Text |      disorders of these elements of love, which to know in relation
601 Text |            and the cure of the evil love. For all manner of impiety
602 Text |          reverencing the harmonious love in all his actions, a man
603 Text |             a man honours the other love, whether in his feelings
604 Text |          rather omnipotent force of love in general. And the love,
605 Text |            love in general. And the love, more especially, which
606 Text |          might be said in praise of Love, but this was not intentional,
607 Text |           harmony of the body has a love of such noises and ticklings,
608 Text |             he had a mind to praise Love in another way, unlike that
609 Text |             understood the power of Love. For if they had understood
610 Text |           such a nature is prone to love and ready to return love,
611 Text |            love and ready to return love, always embracing that which
612 Text |             lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy,
613 Text |      pursuit of the whole is called love. There was a time, I say,
614 Text |           obtain the good, of which Love is to us the lord and minister;
615 Text |        nature had his original true love, then our race would be
616 Text |           attainment of a congenial love. Wherefore, if we would
617 Text |              we must praise the god Love, who is our greatest benefactor,
618 Text |     Eryximachus, is my discourse of love, which, although different
619 Text |           are masters in the art of love, I should be really afraid
620 Text |       completion of our plan. Now I love to hear him talk; but just
621 Text |          not forget the encomium on Love which I ought to receive
622 Text |         instead of praising the god Love, or unfolding his nature,
623 Text |         truly than most of us like:—Love hates him and will not come
624 Text |             near him; but youth and love live and move together—like
625 Text |         were said by Phaedrus about Love in which I agree with him;
626 Text |             of Necessity and not of Love; had Love been in those
627 Text |      Necessity and not of Love; had Love been in those days, there
628 Text |           heaven, since the rule of Love began. Love is young and
629 Text |             the rule of Love began. Love is young and also tender;
630 Text |          proof of the tenderness of Love; for he walks not upon the
631 Text |             manner the attribute of Love; ungrace and love are always
632 Text |      attribute of Love; ungrace and love are always at war with one
633 Text |            no pleasure ever masters Love; he is their master and
634 Text |          him; he is the captive and Love is the lord, for love, the
635 Text |           and Love is the lord, for love, the love of Aphrodite,
636 Text |             the lord, for love, the love of Aphrodite, masters him,
637 Text |           this also is a proof that Love is a good poet and accomplished
638 Text |           that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of
639 Text |          the light of fame?—he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
640 Text |       Apollo, under the guidance of love and desire; so that he too
641 Text |             he too is a disciple of Love. Also the melody of the
642 Text |             and men, are all due to Love, who was the inventor of
643 Text |            inventor of them. And so Love set in order the empire
644 Text |          the empire of the gods—the love of beauty, as is evident,
645 Text |         evident, for with deformity Love has no concern. In the days
646 Text |          but now since the birth of Love, and from the Love of the
647 Text |         birth of Love, and from the Love of the beautiful, has sprung
648 Text |       Therefore, Phaedrus, I say of Love that he is the fairest and
649 Text |             sweet strain with which love charms the souls of gods
650 Text |           turn with you in praising love, and saying that I too was
651 Text |       intention was to attribute to Love every species of greatness
652 Text |            you should really praise Love, but only that you should
653 Text |             And so you attribute to Love every imaginable form of
654 Text |             to hear the truth about love, I am ready to speak in
655 Text |             to have the truth about love, spoken in any words and
656 Text |           to speak of the nature of Love first and afterwards of
657 Text |            ask you further, Whether love is the love of something
658 Text |        further, Whether love is the love of something or of nothing?
659 Text |            not want you to say that love is the love of a father
660 Text |             to say that love is the love of a father or the love
661 Text |             love of a father or the love of a mother—that would be
662 Text |          Socrates, I will ask about Love:—Is Love of something or
663 Text |             will ask about Love:—Is Love of something or of nothing?~
664 Text |         what I want to know—whether Love desires that of which love
665 Text |          Love desires that of which love is.~Yes, surely.~And does
666 Text |            the sort of things which love and desire seek?~Very true,
667 Text |             argument. First, is not love of something, and of something
668 Text |       remind you: you said that the love of the beautiful set in
669 Text |         deformed things there is no love—did you not say something
670 Text |           one. And if this is true, Love is the love of beauty and
671 Text |           this is true, Love is the love of beauty and not of deformity?~
672 Text |          has been already made that Love is of something which a
673 Text |            not?~True, he said.~Then Love wants and has not beauty?~
674 Text |            would you still say that love is beautiful?~Agathon replied:
675 Text |           in wanting the beautiful, love wants also the good?~I cannot
676 Text |            would rehearse a tale of love which I heard from Diotima
677 Text |          instructress in the art of love, and I shall repeat to you
678 Text |             the being and nature of Love, and then of his works.
679 Text |           which he used to me, that Love was a mighty god, and likewise
680 Text |            that, by my own showing, Love was neither fair nor good. ‘
681 Text |         mean, Diotima,’ I said, ‘is love then evil and foul?’ ‘Hush,’
682 Text |         evil; or infer that because love is not fair and good he
683 Text |             them.’ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘Love is surely admitted by all
684 Text |             said with a smile, ‘can Love be acknowledged to be a
685 Text |               And you admitted that Love, because he was in want,
686 Text |           also deny the divinity of Love.’~‘What then is Love?’ I
687 Text |             of Love.’~‘What then is Love?’ I asked; ‘Is he mortal?’ ‘
688 Text |           not with man; but through Love all the intercourse and
689 Text |         diverse, and one of them is Love.’ ‘And who,’ I said, ‘was
690 Text |           at his side and conceived Love, who partly because he is
691 Text |             a mean between the two; Love is one of them. For wisdom
692 Text |           most beautiful thing, and Love is of the beautiful; and
693 Text |            beautiful; and therefore Love is also a philosopher or
694 Text |            the nature of the spirit Love. The error in your conception
695 Text |        arisen out of a confusion of love and the beloved, which made
696 Text |           which made you think that love was all beautiful. For the
697 Text |       blessed; but the principle of love is of another nature, and
698 Text |          sayest well; but, assuming Love to be such as you say, what
699 Text |            and you acknowledge that love is of the beautiful. But
700 Text |          all men, Socrates, said to love, but only some of them?
701 Text |          reason is that one part of love is separated off and receives
702 Text |               And the same holds of love. For you may say generally
703 Text |           great and subtle power of love; but they who are drawn
704 Text |         only—they alone are said to love, or to be lovers.’ ‘I dare
705 Text |             they are evil; for they love not what is their own, unless
706 Text |          there is nothing which men love but the good. Is there anything?’ ‘
707 Text |           simple truth is, that men love the good.’ ‘Yes,’ I said. ‘
708 Text |             must be added that they love the possession of the good?’ ‘
709 Text |           must be added too.’ ‘Then love,’ she said, ‘may be described
710 Text |          described generally as the love of the everlasting possession
711 Text |            if this be the nature of love, can you tell me further,’
712 Text |            and heat which is called love? and what is the object
713 Text |            the pain of travail. For love, Socrates, is not, as you
714 Text |            not, as you imagine, the love of the beautiful only.’ ‘
715 Text |            only.’ ‘What then?’ ‘The love of generation and of birth
716 Text |          has been already admitted, love is of the everlasting possession
717 Text |       together with good: Wherefore love is of immortality.’~All
718 Text |             times when she spoke of love. And I remember her once
719 Text |             the cause, Socrates, of love, and the attendant desire?
720 Text |          they take the infection of love, which begins with the desire
721 Text |       become a master in the art of love, if you do not know this?’ ‘
722 Text |           of the other mysteries of love.’ ‘Marvel not,’ she said, ‘
723 Text |          said, ‘if you believe that love is of the immortal, as we
724 Text |              Marvel not then at the love which all men have of their
725 Text |       offspring; for that universal love and interest is for the
726 Text |             they are stirred by the love of an immortality of fame.
727 Text |           is the character of their love; their offspring, as they
728 Text |             the lesser mysteries of love, into which even you, Socrates,
729 Text |           his instructor aright, to love one such form only—out of
730 Text |           he will abate his violent love of the one, which he will
731 Text |   comeliness, he will be content to love and tend him, and will search
732 Text |         being not like a servant in love with the beauty of one youth
733 Text |            and notions in boundless love of wisdom; until on that
734 Text |           thus far in the things of love, and who has learned to
735 Text |         under the influence of true love, begins to perceive that
736 Text |           another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties
737 Text |           find a helper better than love: And therefore, also, I
738 Text |             the power and spirit of love according to the measure
739 Text |             may call an encomium of love, or anything else which
740 Text |          make a speech in praise of love, and as good a one as he
741 Text |            I leave his presence the love of popularity gets the better
742 Text |            he seemed to be still in love with Socrates. You are sober,
743 Text |           notion is that I ought to love you and nobody else, and
744 Text |           you and you only ought to love Agathon. But the plot of


Theaetetus
    Part
745 Intro|            not imagine that I am in love with him; and, to say the
746 Intro|        adversary he will follow and love you; and if defeated he
747 Intro|             exaggerating it.~k. The love of system is always tending
748 Intro|       transition from sensuality to love or sentiment and from earthly
749 Intro|          sentiment and from earthly love to heavenly, the slow and
750 Intro|        forms of truth, holiness and love, and is satisfied with them.
751 Text |        should suppose that I was in love with him; but he is no beauty,
752 Text |        betrayed into rudeness by my love of conversation? I only
753 Text |             you. He will follow and love you, and will hate himself,


Timaeus
    Part
754 Intro|         first, sensation; secondly, love, which is a mixture of pleasure
755 Intro|     irrational sense and all-daring love according to necessary laws
756 Intro|           her—such, for example, as love or hate, corresponding to
757 Intro|            to conceive it, not by a love of hasty generalization,
758 Intro|           as meaning benevolence or love, in the Christian sense
759 Text |        second place, they must have love, in which pleasure and pain
760 Text |           sense and with all-daring love according to necessary laws,
761 Text |            that the intemperance of love is a disease of the soul
762 Text |             has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true
763 Text |          and thus creates in us the love of procreation. Wherefore
764 Text |            at length the desire and love of the man and the woman,