Dialogue

 1 Lysis|     and not the other.~Yes, my dear youth, I said, the reason
 2 Lysis|       he replied.~Then now, my dear Lysis, I said, you perceive
 3 Lysis|       to whom his children are dear, and steeds having single
 4 Lysis|       loving or hating, may be dear to the lover of it: for
 5 Lysis|      beloved, is the friend or dear one?~Yes.~And the hated
 6 Lysis|    friends. Yet how absurd, my dear friend, or indeed impossible
 7 Lysis|      which makes him a friend, dear to him, or neither dear
 8 Lysis|        dear to him, or neither dear nor hateful to him?~I do
 9 Lysis|        saying, is a friend, or dear to us for the sake of health?~
10 Lysis|        Yes.~And health is also dear?~Certainly.~And if dear,
11 Lysis|        dear?~Certainly.~And if dear, then dear for the sake
12 Lysis|   Certainly.~And if dear, then dear for the sake of something?~
13 Lysis|       this object must also be dear, as is implied in our previous
14 Lysis|        Yes.~And that something dear involves something else
15 Lysis|        involves something else dear?~Yes.~But then, proceeding
16 Lysis| maintain, all other things are dear, and, having there arrived,
17 Lysis|  things, which, as we say, are dear for the sake of another,
18 Lysis|     friend? That which is only dear to us for the sake of something
19 Lysis|       is improperly said to be dear, but the truly dear is that
20 Lysis|      to be dear, but the truly dear is that in which all these
21 Lysis|      which all these so-called dear friendships terminate.~That,
22 Lysis|      to be true.~And the truly dear or ultimate principle of
23 Lysis|        of any other or further dear.~True.~Then we have done
24 Lysis|     mean, which are relatively dear and for the sake of something
25 Lysis|      them. For they are called dear because of another dear
26 Lysis|        dear because of another dear or friend. But with the
27 Lysis|        with the true friend or dear, the case is quite the reverse;
28 Lysis|       for that is proved to be dear because of the hated, and
29 Lysis|     away it would be no longer dear.~Very true, he replied:
30 Lysis|      for that which desires is dear to that which is desired
31 Lysis|      of which he is in want is dear to him?~True.~And he is
32 Lysis|        that what is useless is dear, would be absurd? Suppose,