For if we were to follow out the view of Empedocles, and interpret it according to its meaning and not to its lisping expression, we should find that friendship is the cause of good things, and strife of bad.
Izan ere, baten batek Enpedoklesen pentsamendua jarraitu eta ulertu egiten badu, eta ez haren hizketa-modu baldarra, gauza ederren kausa Adiskidetasuna dela eta gauza 5) itsusiena Gorrotoa dela aurkituko du.