Dialogue

 1 Lysis|  Socrates asks Lysis whether his father and mother do not love him
 2 Lysis| intention of the question: ‘Your father and mother of course allow
 3 Lysis|         to me.~Why, he said, his father being a very well-known
 4 Lysis|         Lysis, I said, that your father and mother love you very
 5 Lysis|     indeed, he said.~And if your father and mother love you, and
 6 Lysis|        want to mount one of your father’s chariots, and take the
 7 Lysis|         is a charioteer, whom my father pays for driving.~And do
 8 Lysis|        Then I must say that your father is pleased to inflict many
 9 Lysis|          ever behave ill to your father or your mother?~No, indeed,
10 Lysis|         should imagine that your father Democrates, and your mother,
11 Lysis|          you please, and neither father nor mother would interfere
12 Lysis|     knowledge; and whenever your father thinks that you are wiser
13 Lysis|          rule hold as about your father? If he is satisfied that
14 Lysis|          not only strangers, but father and mother, and the friend,
15 Lysis|  Certainly not.~Neither can your father or mother love you, nor
16 Lysis|        you are not wise, neither father, nor mother, nor kindred,
17 Lysis|       love, or even hating their father or mother when they are
18 Lysis|          is more precious to his father than all his other treasures);
19 Lysis|        treasures); would not the father, who values his son above
20 Lysis|       had drunk hemlock, and the father thought that wine would