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“‘Well then, Socrates,’ she said, ‘we do not mean that all men love, when we say that all men love the same things always; we mean that some people love and others do not?’“‘I am wondering myself,’ I replied.“‘But you should not wonder,’ she said; ‘for we have singled out a certain form of love, and applying thereto the name of the whole, we call it love; and there are other names that we commonly abuse.’“‘As, for example —————— ?’ I asked.“‘Take the following: you know that poetry1 is more than a single thing. For of anything whatever that passes from not being into being the whole cause
1 Cf. above, Plat. Sym. 197a.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.
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