The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose. volume I (Of X) - Greece
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose. volume I (Of X) - Greece
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See you not how all animals, birds as well as beasts, in their desire of procreation, are in agonywhen they take the infection of love; this begins with the desire ofunion, to which is added the care of offspring, in behalf of whom theweakest are ready to battle against the strongest even to theuttermost, and to die for them, and will let themselves be tormentedwith hunger or suffer anything in order to maintain theiroffspring. .. . Marvel not then at the love which all men have of theiroffspri...ng; for that universal love and interest are for the sake ofimmortality. " When I heard this, I was astonished and said, "Is this really true, Othou wise Diotima?" And she answered with all the authority of asophist: "Of that, Socrates, you may be assured; think only of theambition of men, and you will marvel at their senselessness unless youconsider how they are stirred by the love of an immortality of fame. They are ready to run risks greater far than they would have run fortheir children, and to spend money and undergo any amount of toil, andeven to die for the sake of leaving behind them a name which shall beeternal.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
See you not how all animals, birds as well as beasts, in their desire of procreation, are in agonywhen they take the infection of love; this begins with the desire ofunion, to which is added the care of offspring, in behalf of whom theweakest are ready to battle against the strongest even to theuttermost, and to die for them, and will let themselves be tormentedwith hunger or suffer anything in order to maintain theiroffspring. .. . Marvel not then at the love which all men have of theiroffspri...ng; for that universal love and interest are for the sake ofimmortality. " When I heard this, I was astonished and said, "Is this really true, Othou wise Diotima?" And she answered with all the authority of asophist: "Of that, Socrates, you may be assured; think only of theambition of men, and you will marvel at their senselessness unless youconsider how they are stirred by the love of an immortality of fame. They are ready to run risks greater far than they would have run fortheir children, and to spend money and undergo any amount of toil, andeven to die for the sake of leaving behind them a name which shall beeternal.
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