Dialogue

1 Lysis|     What remains but that the indifferent, which is neither good nor
2 Lysis|     be the friend (not of the indifferent, for that would be ‘like
3 Lysis| beautiful?~But why should the indifferent have this attachment to
4 Lysis|       be natural. Suppose the indifferent, say the human body, to
5 Lysis|    the body would cease to be indifferent, and would become evil)—
6 Lysis|      evil)—in such a case the indifferent becomes a friend of the
7 Lysis|   evil. In this intermediate ‘indifferent’ position the philosopher