Diotima on Love

The next chapter of the Enneads is about Love, and in it, Plotinus repeatedly refers back to Diotima's discourse on Love, as quoted by Socrates, as quoted by Plato in the Symposium. I thought it worthwhile to quote it here (Benjamin Jowett's translation), since it seems a necessary prerequisite to that chapter, and it's be good to take some time to digest it before we get to Plotinus:

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(To be honest, I find quite a lot of fault with it. So, too, does Plotinus, and he goes to some length to distill the overarching principles from it.)