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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: madness. And therefore, let no one frighten or flutter us by saying that
the temperate friend is to be chosen rather than the inspired, but let him
further show that love is not sent by the gods for any good to lover or
beloved; if he can do so we will allow him to carry off the palm. And we,
on our part, will prove in answer to him that the madness of love is the
greatest of heaven's blessings, and the proof shall be one which the wise
will receive, and the witling disbelieve. But first of all, let us view
the affections and actions of the soul divine and human, and try to
ascertain the truth about them. The beginning of our proof is as follows:-
(Translated by Cic. Tus. Quaest.) The soul through all her being is
immortal, for that which is ever in motion is immortal; but that which
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