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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Phaedrus by Plato: who have once begun can never go back. When the time comes they receive
their wings and fly away, and the lovers have the same wings.
Socrates concludes:--
These are the blessings of love, and thus have I made my recantation in
finer language than before: I did so in order to please Phaedrus. If I
said what was wrong at first, please to attribute my error to Lysias, who
ought to study philosophy instead of rhetoric, and then he will not mislead
his disciple Phaedrus.
Phaedrus is afraid that he will lose conceit of Lysias, and that Lysias
will be out of conceit with himself, and leave off making speeches, for the
politicians have been deriding him. Socrates is of opinion that there is
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