# A Plato Reader  ## Metadata - Author: [[Plato]] - Full Title: A Plato Reader - Category: #books ## Highlights - The unreasoning desire that overpowers a person’s considered impulse to do right and is driven to take [238c] pleasure in beauty, its force reinforced by its kindred desires for beauty in human bodies—this desire, all-conquering in its forceful drive, takes its name from the word for force [rhōmē] and is called love [erōs].” ([Location 5688](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00AQZYXNE&location=5688))