An idea from The Symposium

Agathon, the host, gives the prettiest speech of the night: Love is young, soft, just, brave and wise. Socrates says he can’t praise like that. The others piled every fine quality onto Love whether it was true or not, and he will only tell the truth.

From The Symposium by Plato

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