"...these Guardians we are to bring up will never be fully cultivated until we can recognize the essential Forms of temperance, courage, liberality, high-mindedness, and all other kindred qualities, and also their opposites, wherever they occur. We must be able to discern the presence of these Forms themselves and also of their images in anything that contains them, realizing that, to recognize either, the same skill and practice are required, and that the most insignificant instance is not beneath our notice.
That must surely be so.
And for him who has eyes to see it, there can be no fairer sight than the harmonious union of a noble character in the soul with an outward form answering thereto and bearing the same stamp of beauty.
There cannot.
And the fairest is also the most lovable.
Of course.
So the man who has been educated in poetry and music will be in love with such a person, but never with one who lacks this harmony.
Not if the defect should lie in the soul; if it were only some bodily blemish, he would accept that with patience and goodwill."
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