Symposium | Quotes

Symposium Quotes

"Socrates sat down and said 'How splendid it would be Agathon, if wisdom was the sort of thing that could flow from the fuller to the emptier of us when we touch each other, like water, which flows through a piece of wool from a fuller cup to an emptier one.'"
(Line 175c)

"Take the case of a man in love who is caught acting disgracefully or undergoing something disgraceful because he fails to defend himself out of cowardice. I think it would cause him more pain to be seen in this situation by his boyfriend, than by his father, his friends or anyone else"
(Line 178e)

"Aeschylus talks nonsense when he says that Achilles was Patroclus' lover: he was more beautiful than Patroclus (indeed he was the most beautiful of all the heroes), and was still beardless, as well as much younger than Patroclus, as Homer tells us."
(Line 180a)

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