PLATO 



He who from these ascending under the in- 

 fluence of true love, begins to perceive that 

 beauty, is not far from the end. And the true 

 order of going, or being led by another, to the 

 things of love is to begin from the beauties of 

 earth, and mount upwards for the sake of that 

 other beauty, using these as steps only, and 

 from one going on to two, and from two to 

 all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair 

 practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, 

 until from fair notions he arrives at the notion 

 of absolute beauty, and at last knows what 

 the essence of beauty is. 



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