For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of …

Plato
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For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them ✨ Plato, Francis Macdonald Cornford, Alfred Edward Taylor (1985). The banquet (also known as The symposium)
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