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• A good practitioner knows how to affect the body and how to transform its desires; he can implant the proper species of Love when it is absent and eliminate the other sort whenever it occurs.
• Music is therefore simply the science of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
• Divination, therefore, is the practice that produces loving affection between gods and men; [188D] it is simply the science of the effects of Love on justice and piety.
• You see, I think people have entirely missed the power of Love, because, if they had grasped it, they’d have built the greatest temples and altars to him and made the greatest sacrifices.
• Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature.