Dialogue

 1 Lysis|       who is loved? Or are both friends? From the first of these
 2 Lysis|       like. But the bad are not friends, for they are not even like
 3 Lysis|         unsolved, and the three friends, Socrates, Lysis, and Menexenus,
 4 Lysis|      the sake of the good. That friends are not necessarily either
 5 Lysis|         out of the relations of friends have not often been considered
 6 Lysis|    minister to them. Among true friends jealousy has no place: they
 7 Lysis|      one another for making new friends, or for not revealing some
 8 Lysis|   friendship. The alienation of friends, like many other human evils,
 9 Lysis|         impair the happiness of friends.~We may expect a friendship
10 Lysis|       be permanent when the two friends are equal and independent,
11 Lysis|      has ceased to be. That two friends should part company whenever
12 Lysis| consideration, how should these friends in youth or friends of the
13 Lysis|       these friends in youth or friends of the past regard or be
14 Lysis|      worthy to bear the name of friends, will either of them entertain
15 Lysis|        two, I said; for you are friends, are you not?~Certainly,
16 Lysis|    Certainly, they replied.~And friends have all things in common,
17 Lysis|      you say truly that you are friends.~They assented. I was about
18 Lysis|       assented.~And shall we be friends to others, and will any
19 Lysis|      wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will
20 Lysis|      any one else, will be your friends. And in matters of which
21 Lysis|        but I have a passion for friends; and I would rather have
22 Lysis|   himself: I am such a lover of friends as that. And when I see
23 Lysis|      the other, they are mutual friends?~Yes, he said; that is my
24 Lysis|      were saying that both were friends, if one only loved; but
25 Lysis|     enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of
26 Lysis|      their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the
27 Lysis|        and the enemies of their friends. Yet how absurd, my dear
28 Lysis|        say? Whom are we to call friends to one another? Do any remain?~
29 Lysis|       wisdom, and they speak of friends in no light or trivial manner,
30 Lysis|   injurer and injured cannot be friends. Is not that true?~Yes,
31 Lysis|       are like one another, and friends to one another; and that
32 Lysis|    answer the question ‘Who are friends?’ for the argument declares ‘
33 Lysis|     declares ‘That the good are friends.’~Yes, he said, that is
34 Lysis|       another?~They cannot.~And friends they cannot be, unless they
35 Lysis|          the contraries must be friends.~They must.~Then neither
36 Lysis|       nor unlike and unlike are friends.~I suppose not.~And yet
37 Lysis|       disease to court and make friends of the art of medicine?~
38 Lysis|       assented.~Then if you are friends, you must have natures which
39 Lysis|        all—if none of these are friends, I know not what remains
40 Lysis|         imagine ourselves to be friends—this is what the by-standers