Plato, Phaedrus, section 265a

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[265a] something which those who wish to investigate rhetoric might well examine.

Phaedrus
What do you mean?

Socrates
The two discourses were opposites; for one maintained that the lover, and the other that the non-lover, should be favored.

Phaedrus
And they did it right manfully.

Socrates
I thought you were going to speak the truth and say “madly”; however, that is just what I had in mind. We said that love was a kind of madness, did we not?

Phaedrus
Yes.

Socrates
And that there are two kinds of madness, one arising from human diseases, and the other from a divine release from the customary habits.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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