Eros produces passion and courage, and love leads most to character and happiness.
Love is an action, and we cannot say that beauty is worthy of praise when we encounter love; only the God of love, which drives man to love in a noble way, is beautiful and worthy of praise.
The reason why the lover has to wait for the lover to reach this age before loving him is because he wants to stay with him for life.
We should love people of good character, as well as people who are small and flawed but willing to work hard, and this is what should be maintained. As for other loves, they must be carefully guarded against, lest their pleasure develop into lasciviousness.
Eros helps mankind to heal diseases, and when he is cured, he can attain the highest happiness.
From very ancient times, the desire for love between people has been rooted in the heart, and he wants to restore the original state of unity, to combine two people into one, and to heal the pain of the previous cut.
No one would believe that just by sharing the joy of love, it would make them so passionately united with each other. It was clear that the souls of these two men were expecting something else that was vaguely felt but could not be spoken of.
There is only one way for all mankind to happiness, that is, to realize their own love, to find a lover who just matches themselves, in short, to restore to their original appearance.
Eros is a delicate thing, a thing that wanders over the softest thing in the world and dwells there.
He is also resilient. If he were hard, he would not be able to accommodate himself at any time and anywhere, sneaking in and out of every soul without being noticed.
Eros is not only just, but also prudent. Prudence is the power to temper pleasure and lust.
Everything that belongs to good things, the expectation of happiness, is the greatest, strongest love in everyone's heart.
Beauty is the goddess who guides and helps fertility and the goddess who determines destiny. For this reason, the fertile and fertile person was immediately overjoyed and refreshed when she met the object of beauty, and mated with her and had a child.
If you encounter an ugly one, you will be discouraged, have no interest, avoid him and not give birth, preferring to carry the heavy burden
Therefore the seeds and desires full of fertility rejoice at the sight of the object of beauty, because she can put an end to his great suffering.
Love hopes for good things, and love must also be immortal.
When he meets a soul who is both beautiful and noble and excellent, he will love such a good object in all bodies and minds, he will talk to her about virtue, and he will cultivate the children he has with the object.
When people see the beauty itself, it is the stage when people are most worth living.
Overwhelmed, unable to grasp themselves, like in a state of slavery, I don't know what to do with this person.
I am a person who has been bitten by a pit viper, and it is said that such a person will not tell anyone what has happened to him, unless the person has also been bitten and can understand and understand what he has done and what he has said out of pain.
From Wang Taiqing's translation of Plato's Dialogues