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.

因为如果我们遵循恩培多克勒的观点，并根据其含义而不是口齿不清的表达来解释它，我们就会发现友谊是好事的起因，而争斗是坏事的起因。