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something which those who wish to investigate rhetoric might well examine.Phaedrus
What do you mean?Socrates
The two discourses were opposites; for one maintained that the lover, and the other that the non-lover, should be favored.Phaedrus
And they did it right manfully.Socrates
I thought you were going to speak the truth and say “madly”; however, that is just what I had in mind. We said that love was a kind of madness, did we not?Phaedrus
Yes.Socrates
And that there are two kinds of madness, one arising from human diseases, and the other from a divine release from the customary habits.
What do you mean?Socrates
The two discourses were opposites; for one maintained that the lover, and the other that the non-lover, should be favored.Phaedrus
And they did it right manfully.Socrates
I thought you were going to speak the truth and say “madly”; however, that is just what I had in mind. We said that love was a kind of madness, did we not?Phaedrus
Yes.Socrates
And that there are two kinds of madness, one arising from human diseases, and the other from a divine release from the customary habits.