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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: They assented.
Then if you are friends, you must have natures which are congenial to one
another?
Certainly, they both said.
And I say, my boys, that no one who loves or desires another would ever
have loved or desired or affected him, if he had not been in some way
congenial to him, either in his soul, or in his character, or in his
manners, or in his form.
Yes, yes, said Menexenus. But Lysis was silent.
Then, I said, the conclusion is, that what is of a congenial nature must be
loved.
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