So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.
PlatoLove is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.
PlatoFollow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
Plato