|
The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lysis by Plato: persons ever be induced to value one another?
They cannot.
And friends they cannot be, unless they value one another?
Very true.
But see now, Lysis, whether we are not being deceived in all this--are we
not indeed entirely wrong?
How so? he replied.
Have I not heard some one say, as I just now recollect, that the like is
the greatest enemy of the like, the good of the good?--Yes, and he quoted
the authority of Hesiod, who says:
'Potter quarrels with potter, bard with bard,
Lysis |
