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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the
friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. Would that be an ignoble
life?'
Such, Phaedrus--and I speak not only to you, but to all of you--were the
words of Diotima; and I am persuaded of their truth. And being persuaded
of them, I try to persuade others, that in the attainment of this end human
nature will not easily find a helper better than love: And therefore,
also, I say that every man ought to honour him as I myself honour him, and
walk in his ways, and exhort others to do the same, and praise the power
and spirit of love according to the measure of my ability now and ever.
The words which I have spoken, you, Phaedrus, may call an encomium of love,
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