Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus. quotes
"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . ."
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire
Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all figh
"When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . ."