Plato on Anteros

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"When he is with the lover, both cease from their pain, but when he is away then he longs as he is longed for, and has love's image, Anteros (love against love) lodging in his breast, which he calls and believes to be not love but friendship only, and his desire is as the desire of the other, but weaker; he wants to see him, touch him, kiss him, embrace him, and probably not long afterwards his desire is accomplished."

- Plato, Phaedrus 255d (trans. Lamb)
- http://www.theoi.com/Ouranios/ErosAnteros.html