'So Love needs beauty, then, and does not have it.'
'Necessarily,' he said.
'So! If something needs beauty and has got no beauty at all, would you still say that it is beautiful?'
'Certainly not.'
'Then do you still agree that Love is beautiful, if those things are so?'
Then Agathon said, 'It turns out, Socrates, I didn't know what I was talking about in that speech.'
'It was a beautiful speech anyway, Agathon,' said Socrates.
PLATO
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