Dialogue

 1 Lysis|       minister to them. Among true friends jealousy has no
 2 Lysis|     compare Symposium).~It is true that friendships are apt
 3 Lysis|     is summoned by them.~Very true.~And you would be allowed
 4 Lysis|   interfere with you.~That is true, he said.~Then what can
 5 Lysis|    know what is best?~That is true.~And everything in which
 6 Lysis|    commit to us?~That is very true, Socrates, he replied.~Then
 7 Lysis|       yet attained to wisdom.~True.~And therefore you are not
 8 Lysis|   they are hated. Is not that true?~Yes, he said, quite true.~
 9 Lysis|     true?~Yes, he said, quite true.~In that case, the one loves,
10 Lysis|    friend.~That appears to be true.~Then nothing which does
11 Lysis|    think that what you say is true.~And, if so, not the lover,
12 Lysis|       of that which is loved?~True.~And the hater will be the
13 Lysis|       him.~That appears to be true.~But if the lover is not
14 Lysis|   Lysis, that what you say is true, and that, if we had been
15 Lysis| nature and the universe.~Very true, he replied.~And are they
16 Lysis|       be friends. Is not that true?~Yes, he said.~Then one
17 Lysis|     like one another?~That is true.~But the real meaning of
18 Lysis|         Yes, he said, that is true.~Yes, I replied; and yet
19 Lysis|      in so far as he is good?~True.~But then again, will not
20 Lysis|       value one another?~Very true.~But see now, Lysis, whether
21 Lysis|     be the friend of the bad.~True.~But neither can like be
22 Lysis|      we were just now saying.~True.~And if so, that which is
23 Lysis|     is neither good nor evil?~True.~And the body is compelled
24 Lysis|     would be present in them?~True.~But that would not make
25 Lysis| health, and health is a good.~True.~And is health a friend,
26 Lysis|       arrived, we shall stop?~True.~My fear is that all those
27 Lysis|    principle is, there is the true ideal of friendship. Let
28 Lysis|        Is not this rather the true state of the case? All his
29 Lysis|        he said, appears to be true.~And the truly dear or ultimate
30 Lysis|    any other or further dear.~True.~Then we have done with
31 Lysis|       or friend. But with the true friend or dear, the case
32 Lysis|       be no longer dear.~Very true, he replied: at any rate
33 Lysis|       benefit us:—Is not that true?~Yes.~And in like manner
34 Lysis|       the cause is destroyed.~True.~And have we not admitted
35 Lysis|     because of the evil?~Very true.~But now our view is changed,
36 Lysis|       in want is dear to him?~True.~And he is in want of that
37 Lysis|        Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must
38 Lysis|      perhaps be allowed.~Very true.~And shall we further say
39 Lysis|       the friend of the good.~True.~But that too was a position