Dialogue

 1 Lysis|       great blessing.’~When one man loves another, which is
 2 Lysis|         And desire is of what a man wants and of what is congenial
 3 Lysis|         condition and nature of man? And in those especially
 4 Lysis|         being a very well-known man, he retains his patronymic,
 5 Lysis|  suppose that you will affirm a man to be a good poet who injures
 6 Lysis|         is he a slave or a free man?~A slave, he said.~And do
 7 Lysis|      strange thing, that a free man should be governed by a
 8 Lysis|     wrong who sings—~‘Happy the man to whom his children are
 9 Lysis| impossible is this paradox of a man being an enemy to his friend
10 Lysis|      preceding instance, that a man may be the friend of one
11 Lysis|       by us. For the more a bad man has to do with a bad man,
12 Lysis|        man has to do with a bad man, and the more nearly he
13 Lysis|        friendship. For the poor man is compelled to be the friend
14 Lysis|        the strong, and the sick man of the physician; and every
15 Lysis|        said this was a charming man, and that he spoke well.
16 Lysis|    replied.~Well, but is a just man the friend of the unjust,
17 Lysis|         enough; and the healthy man has no love of the physician,
18 Lysis|     clearer to myself. The sick man, as I was just now saying,
19 Lysis|       they will.~And must not a man love that which he desires