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Complaints and recriminations occur solely or chiefly in friendships of utility, as is to
be expected. In a friendship based on virtue each party is eager to benefit the other, for
this is characteristic of virtue and of friendship; and as they vie with each other in
giving and not in getting benefit, no complaints nor quarrels can arise, since nobody is
angry with one who loves him and benefits him, but on the contrary, if a person of good
feeling, requites him with service in return; and the one who outdoes the other in
beneficence will not have any complaint against his friend, since he gets what he desires,
and what each man desires is the good.1
1 The last clause is suspected as an interpolation.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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