"It is the nature of the real lover of learning to strive for what it is; and he does not tarry by each of the many things opined to be but goes forward and does not lose the keenness of his passionat
e love nor cease from it before he grasps the nature itself of each thing which is with the part of the soul fit to grasp a thing of that sort; and it is the part akin to it that is fit. And once near it and coupled with what really is, having begotten intelligence and truth, he knows and lives truly, is nourished and so ceases from his labor pains, but not before" (169-170 Plato, trans. Bloom 2016).
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