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Differences also arise in friendships where there is disparity between the parties. Each
claims to get more than the other, and this inevitably leads to a rupture. If one is a
better man than the other, he thinks he has a right to more, for goodness deserves the
larger share. And similarly when one is more useful than the other: if a man is of no use,
they say, he ought not to have an equal share, for it becomes a charity and not a
friendship at all, if what one gets out of it is not enough to repay one's trouble. For
men think that it ought to be in a friendship as it is in a business partnership, where
those who contribute more capital take more of the profits. On the other hand the needy or
inferior person takes the opposite view: he maintains that it is the part of a good friend
to assist those in need; what is the use (he argues) of being friends
with the good and great if one is to get nothing out of it?
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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