Dialogue

 1 Lysis|   has to be devised. May not desire be the source of friendship?
 2 Lysis|    source of friendship? And desire is of what a man wants and
 3 Lysis|     and mother love you, and desire that you should be happy,
 4 Lysis|      you from doing what you desire?~Yes, indeed, Socrates;
 5 Lysis|      doing nothing which you desire; so that you have no good,
 6 Lysis|     have their fancies; some desire horses, and others dogs;
 7 Lysis|       Now, I have no violent desire of any of these things;
 8 Lysis|    he who wants nothing will desire nothing?~He will not.~Neither
 9 Lysis|  love that which he does not desire?~He cannot.~And he who loves
10 Lysis|      evil it would not still desire and love the good; for,
11 Lysis| presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but
12 Lysis|   thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good;
13 Lysis|     that we did but love and desire the good because of the
14 Lysis|    more, or have any similar desire? Or may we suppose that
15 Lysis| manner thirst or any similar desire may sometimes be a good
16 Lysis|   were saying just now, that desire is the cause of friendship;
17 Lysis|    Certainly.~Then love, and desire, and friendship would appear