The right way to proceed on its own or to be conducted by another in matters of love is this: On the basis of the good things of this world, in order to reach the Fair, get more and more, as proceeding in steps, from a single body looking at two, and two to all the beautiful bodies, and all bodies beautiful beautiful to human activities, and from these the beautiful knowledge, and knowledge to proceed until we attain to that knowledge of nothing other than the Beautiful itself, and so, coming to an end, to know what is beauty in itself. (Plato's "Symposium")
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