Critias
    Part
  1 Text |           increased by virtue and friendship with one another, whereas
  2 Text |           them, they are lost and friendship with them. By such reflections


The First Alcibiades
    Part
  3 Text |          is the God of our common friendship, and whom I never will forswear,
  4 Text |         Socrates:—the presence of friendship and the absence of hatred
  5 Text |      SOCRATES: And do you mean by friendship agreement or disagreement?~
  6 Text |         that there should be such friendship and agreement as exists
  7 Text |        SOCRATES: Nor can there be friendship, if friendship is agreement?~
  8 Text |           there be friendship, if friendship is agreement?~ALCIBIADES:
  9 Text |        are well administered when friendship is absent, the presence
 10 Text |          should say that there is friendship among them, for this very
 11 Text |        mean now by affirming that friendship exists when there is no
 12 Text |         in the state, is there no friendship among them?~ALCIBIADES:
 13 Text |          what do you mean by this friendship or agreement about which


Gorgias
    Part
 14 Text |            And now, by the god of friendship, I must beg you, Callicles,
 15 Text |    communion is also incapable of friendship. And philosophers tell us,
 16 Text |     Callicles, that communion and friendship and orderliness and temperance
 17 Text |          adjure you by the god of friendship, my good sir, do tell me


Laws
    Book
 18 1    |          other, or that peace and friendship should be re–established,
 19 1    |          you; thus ancient is the friendship which I and my parents have
 20 2    |      children;—when pleasure, and friendship, and pain, and hatred, are
 21 3    |       wisdom is to be the aim, or friendship is to be the aim, that all
 22 3    |      spirit. And now, speaking of friendship and wisdom and freedom,
 23 3    |    liberty and the combination of friendship with wisdom, you must have
 24 3    |     because there was freedom and friendship and communion of mind among
 25 3    |        thus creating a feeling of friendship and community among all
 26 3    |       despotism, and so destroyed friendship and community of feeling.
 27 3    |     created in them the spirit of friendship; there was the fear of the
 28 4    |            There is an element of friendship in the community of race,
 29 6    |      saying, that “equality makes friendship,” is happy and also true;
 30 6    |         and the second to promote friendship and “better acquaintance,”
 31 7    |           after him in the way of friendship, which is praised and also
 32 8    |    matters must see the nature of friendship and desire, and of these
 33 8    |          Very true.~Athenian. The friendship which arises from contraries
 34 8    |        which is the sworn mark of friendship and hatred between neighbours;
 35 9    |    feelings of enmity to those of friendship.~Cleinias. Very good.~Athenian.


Lysis
    Part
 36 Intro|         to the question, ‘What is Friendship?’ any more than in the Charmides
 37 Intro|          a new question: ‘What is friendship? You, Menexenus, who have
 38 Intro|        and unlikeness of love and friendship; and they too adduce the
 39 Intro|        mind of Socrates: Must not friendship be for the sake of some
 40 Intro|        that final cause or end of friendship be, other than the good?
 41 Intro|         no evil there would be no friendship. Some other explanation
 42 Intro|           desire be the source of friendship? And desire is of what a
 43 Intro|      morality, illustrated by the friendship of the two youths, and also
 44 Intro|           comprehensive notion of friendship. This, however, is far from
 45 Intro|   Socrates:—First, the sense that friendship arises out of human needs
 46 Intro|           higher form or ideal of friendship exists only for the sake
 47 Intro|    against which no definition of friendship would be able to stand.
 48 Intro|        the childlike and innocent friendship of the boys with one another.
 49 Intro|        SOME QUESTIONS RELATING TO FRIENDSHIP.~The subject of friendship
 50 Intro|        FRIENDSHIP.~The subject of friendship has a lower place in the
 51 Intro|          The received examples of friendship are to be found chiefly
 52 Intro|         with Socrates, 1) whether friendship is ‘of similars or dissimilars,’
 53 Intro|           of the evil; 4) whether friendship is always mutual,—may there
 54 Intro|          one-sided and unrequited friendship? This question, which, like
 55 Intro|           Plato.~5) Can we expect friendship to be permanent, or must
 56 Intro|          vitae permanere’? Is not friendship, even more than love, liable
 57 Intro|      elders laugh. No one forms a friendship with the intention of renouncing
 58 Intro|       some less exclusive form of friendship better suited to the condition
 59 Intro|          had their three kinds of friendship, ‘for the sake of the pleasant,
 60 Intro|           they could not say that friendship was only a quality, or a
 61 Intro|   question in a more general way. Friendship is the union of two persons
 62 Intro|        secret of their lives; (in friendship too there must be reserves;)
 63 Intro|        same. The greatest good of friendship is not daily intercourse,
 64 Intro|         disturb the equability of friendship. The alienation of friends,
 65 Intro|          friends.~We may expect a friendship almost divine, such as philosophers
 66 Intro|        more often mar than make a friendship. It is most likely to be
 67 Intro|        which it would cease to be friendship.~Another question 9) may
 68 Intro|            may be raised, whether friendship can safely exist between
 69 Intro| difference any more than in their friendship; the memory of an old attachment,
 70 Intro|          a few of the Problems of Friendship, some of them suggested
 71 Intro|           Compare Bacon, Essay on Friendship; Cic. de Amicitia.)~
 72 Text |                         LYSIS, OR FRIENDSHIP~PERSONS OF THE DIALOGUE:
 73 Text |        the friend; or is there no friendship at all on either side, unless
 74 Text |         never attains to any real friendship, either with good or evil.
 75 Text |           place then is there for friendship, if, when absent, good men
 76 Text |           and the most unlike, of friendship. For the poor man is compelled
 77 Text |        language, that the idea of friendship existing between similars
 78 Text |          to say that the greatest friendship is of opposites?~Exactly.~
 79 Text |     possible.~And yet, I said, if friendship goes by contraries, the
 80 Text |          not all these notions of friendship be erroneous? but may not
 81 Text |          there be such a thing as friendship or love at all, we must
 82 Text |         takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which
 83 Text |           was supposed to have no friendship with the evil?~None.~And
 84 Text |          discovered the nature of friendship— there can be no doubt of
 85 Text |      there can be no doubt of it: Friendship is the love which by reason
 86 Text |           that the argument about friendship is false: arguments, like
 87 Text |    medicine has entered into this friendship for the sake of health,
 88 Text |           some first principle of friendship or dearness which is not
 89 Text |        there is the true ideal of friendship. Let me put the matter thus:
 90 Text |          or ultimate principle of friendship is not for the sake of any
 91 Text |         done with the notion that friendship has any further object.
 92 Text |       Then the final principle of friendship, in which all other friendships
 93 Text |          some elements of love or friendship?~Yes.~But not if evil is
 94 Text |           if evil is the cause of friendship: for in that case nothing
 95 Text |       must be some other cause of friendship?~I suppose so.~May not the
 96 Text |       that desire is the cause of friendship; for that which desires
 97 Text |        Then love, and desire, and friendship would appear to be of the
 98 Text |       sense in our argument about friendship. But if the congenial is


Menexenus
    Part
 99 Text |        which created among them a friendship as of kinsmen, faithful


Meno
    Part
100 Intro|        who asked simply, ‘what is friendship?’ ‘what is temperance?’ ‘


Parmenides
    Part
101 Text |          not only one with you in friendship but your second self in


Phaedrus
    Part
102 Intro|       conclusion, he will say, is friendship, which does not receive
103 Intro|     together in holy and innocent friendship. The poet might describe
104 Intro|       exercised by the passion of friendship over the mind of the Greek.
105 Text |      person who is worthy of your friendship. If public opinion be your
106 Text |       another is natural, whether friendship or mere pleasure be the
107 Text |        you fear the fickleness of friendship, consider that in any other
108 Text |         to come to him out of his friendship with others. Many lovers
109 Text |          were always friends, the friendship is not lessened by the favours
110 Text |          these are the marks of a friendship which will last.~Do you
111 Text |          you, by Zeus, the god of friendship, to tell me whether you
112 Text |  pleasures, and similarity begets friendship; yet you may have more than
113 Text |       youth, and know that in the friendship of the lover there is no
114 Text |   ordained that there shall be no friendship among the evil has also
115 Text |          that there shall ever be friendship among the good. And the
116 Text |     kinsmen; they have nothing of friendship in them worthy to be compared
117 Text |       believes to be not love but friendship only, and his desire is
118 Text |      heavenly blessings which the friendship of a lover will confer upon


Protagoras
    Part
119 Text |           cities and the bonds of friendship and conciliation. Hermes


The Republic
    Book
120 1    |       justice imparts harmony and friendship; is not that true, Thrasymachus? ~
121 3    |       their parents, and to value friendship with one another. ~Yes;
122 5    |     together by ties of blood and friendship, and alien and strange to
123 9    |         tastes of true freedom or friendship. ~Certainly not. ~And may


The Seventh Letter
    Part
124 Text |   betraying first and foremost my friendship and comradeship with Dion,
125 Text |           every case relations of friendship and comradeship among them.
126 Text |           was no common or vulgar friendship, but rested on community
127 Text |         complete rupture in their friendship with Dionysios, which had
128 Text |           you, if ever you desire friendship and wish to benefit one


The Sophist
    Part
129 Intro|       held together by enmity and friendship, ever parting, ever meeting.
130 Text |       held together by enmity and friendship, ever parting, ever meeting,


The Statesman
    Part
131 Text |          another by unanimity and friendship, and having perfected the


The Symposium
    Part
132 Intro|          of all our happiness and friendship with the gods and with one
133 Intro|           was the noblest form of friendship (Rep.), and who deemed the
134 Intro|         Rep.), and who deemed the friendship of man with man to be higher
135 Intro|       have converted the innocent friendship of a great man for a noble
136 Text |       should be no strong bond of friendship or society among them, which
137 Text |          mention that no generous friendship ever sprang from them. There
138 Text |            knowing how to implant friendship and accord in these elements,
139 Text |          an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy, and one will
140 Text |      nearer tie and have a closer friendship than those who beget mortal


Theaetetus
    Part
141 Intro|      courage in the Laches, or of friendship in the Lysis, or of temperance


Timaeus
    Part
142 Intro|        heaven, having harmony and friendship in the union of the four
143 Intro|          have too much of good or friendship among his creatures. Only,
144 Text |       therefore has the spirit of friendship; and having been reconciled
145 Text |      itself, and needing no other friendship or acquaintance. Having