Dialogue

 1 Lysis|      appears again as the elder friend of the two boys, Lysis and
 2 Lysis|      You, Menexenus, who have a friend already, can tell me, who
 3 Lysis|     loves another, which is the friend—he who loves, or he who
 4 Lysis|         assert that like is the friend of like. But the bad are
 5 Lysis|      tell us that ‘moist is the friend of dry, hot of cold,’ and
 6 Lysis|      then the just would be the friend of the unjust, good of evil.~
 7 Lysis| conclusion that like is not the friend of like, nor unlike of unlike;
 8 Lysis|       therefore good is not the friend of good, nor evil of evil,
 9 Lysis|         nor evil, should be the friend (not of the indifferent,
10 Lysis|         that would be ‘like the friend of like,’ but) of the good,
11 Lysis|       the indifferent becomes a friend of the good for the sake
12 Lysis|    already shown, cannot be the friend of like. Nor can the congenial
13 Lysis|       good; for good is not the friend of good, as has been also
14 Lysis|       unable to find out what a friend is.~Thus, as in the Charmides
15 Lysis| remembrance of one another. The friend can do for his friend what
16 Lysis|       The friend can do for his friend what he cannot do for himself.
17 Lysis|      life, when the advice of a friend is needed, then the word
18 Lysis|    voice or grasp the hand of a friend, in a shipwreck, in a defeat,
19 Lysis|        should have any intimate friend, besides his or her partner
20 Lysis|      feel pain at the loss of a friend; and he will remember with
21 Lysis|        wishes to make or keep a friend may profitably study. (Compare
22 Lysis|          Yes, he said, your old friend and admirer, Miccus.~Indeed,
23 Lysis| relation Menexenus is his great friend, shall call him.~That will
24 Lysis|    alone; but first of all, his friend Menexenus, leaving his play,
25 Lysis|      father and mother, and the friend, if there be one, who is
26 Lysis|        would rather have a good friend than the best cock or quail
27 Lysis|    should greatly prefer a real friend to all the gold of Darius,
28 Lysis|         even know in what way a friend is acquired. But I want
29 Lysis|        lover or the beloved the friend; or may either be the friend?~
30 Lysis|    friend; or may either be the friend?~Either may, I should think,
31 Lysis|          I should think, be the friend of either.~Do you mean,
32 Lysis|          Yes.~Then which is the friend of which? Is the lover the
33 Lysis|         which? Is the lover the friend of the beloved, whether
34 Lysis|    hated; or is the beloved the friend; or is there no friendship
35 Lysis|         both love, neither is a friend.~That appears to be true.~
36 Lysis|         but the beloved, is the friend or dear one?~Yes.~And the
37 Lysis|         Yet how absurd, my dear friend, or indeed impossible is
38 Lysis|       man being an enemy to his friend or a friend to his enemy.~
39 Lysis|        enemy to his friend or a friend to his enemy.~I quite agree,
40 Lysis|       be, the lover will be the friend of that which is loved?~
41 Lysis| instance, that a man may be the friend of one who is not his friend,
42 Lysis|    friend of one who is not his friend, or who may be his enemy,
43 Lysis|      his enemy, and is even his friend: for example, when he hates
44 Lysis|       But if the lover is not a friend, nor the beloved a friend,
45 Lysis|       friend, nor the beloved a friend, nor both together, what
46 Lysis|      agree?~Yes, I do.~Then, my friend, those who say that the
47 Lysis|       that the good only is the friend of the good, and of him
48 Lysis|  inasmuch as he is like, is the friend of like, and useful to him—
49 Lysis|        he who is not loved be a friend?~Certainly not.~But say
50 Lysis|        that the like is not the friend of the like in so far as
51 Lysis|       still the good may be the friend of the good in so far as
52 Lysis|     loves not is not a lover or friend?~Clearly not.~What place
53 Lysis|      man is compelled to be the friend of the rich, and the weak
54 Lysis|        whether the enemy is the friend of the friend, or the friend
55 Lysis|      enemy is the friend of the friend, or the friend the friend
56 Lysis|    friend of the friend, or the friend the friend of the enemy?~
57 Lysis|       friend, or the friend the friend of the enemy?~Neither, he
58 Lysis|     Well, but is a just man the friend of the unjust, or the temperate
59 Lysis|      still in some cases be the friend of the good?~How do you
60 Lysis|      that ‘the beautiful is the friend,’ as the old proverb says.
61 Lysis|    neither good nor evil is the friend of the beautiful and the
62 Lysis|         neither is the good the friend of the good, nor the evil
63 Lysis|       good nor evil must be the friend, either of the good, or
64 Lysis|          for nothing can be the friend of the bad.~True.~But neither
65 Lysis|         neither can like be the friend of like, as we were just
66 Lysis|       good nor evil can have no friend which is neither good nor
67 Lysis|      Then the good alone is the friend of that only which is neither
68 Lysis|       good nor evil becomes the friend of good, by reason of the
69 Lysis|          the evil cannot be the friend of the good.~Impossible.~
70 Lysis|     seen, neither is unlike the friend of unlike, nor like of like.
71 Lysis|       the matter in this way: a friend is the friend of some one;
72 Lysis|       this way: a friend is the friend of some one; is he not?~
73 Lysis|    motive and object in being a friend, or has he no motive and
74 Lysis|        object which makes him a friend, dear to him, or neither
75 Lysis|         just now saying, is the friend of the physician—is he not?~
76 Lysis|         not?~Yes.~And he is the friend of the physician because
77 Lysis|         because of evil, is the friend of medicine, and medicine
78 Lysis|     good.~True.~And is health a friend, or not a friend?~A friend.~
79 Lysis|       health a friend, or not a friend?~A friend.~And disease is
80 Lysis|      friend, or not a friend?~A friend.~And disease is an enemy?~
81 Lysis|    neither good nor evil is the friend of the good because of the
82 Lysis|        sake of the good and the friend?~Clearly.~Then the friend
83 Lysis|       friend?~Clearly.~Then the friend is a friend for the sake
84 Lysis|   Clearly.~Then the friend is a friend for the sake of the friend,
85 Lysis|      friend for the sake of the friend, and because of the enemy?~
86 Lysis|       not again repeat that the friend is the friend of the friend,
87 Lysis|   repeat that the friend is the friend of the friend, and the like
88 Lysis|     friend is the friend of the friend, and the like of the like,
89 Lysis|         as we were saying, is a friend, or dear to us for the sake
90 Lysis|         the same be said of the friend? That which is only dear
91 Lysis|      infer that the good is the friend?~I think so.~And the good
92 Lysis|      because of another dear or friend. But with the true friend
93 Lysis|       friend. But with the true friend or dear, the case is quite
94 Lysis|        case nothing will be the friend of any other thing after
95 Lysis|       admitted already that the friend loves something for a reason?
96 Lysis|      for the unjust will be the friend of the unjust, and the bad
97 Lysis|         and he only will be the friend of the good.~True.~But that
98 Lysis|      able to discover what is a friend!~