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But to resume: the forms of friendship of which we have spoken are friendships of
equality, for both parties render the same benefit and wish the same good to each other,
or else exchange1 two different benefits, for instance pleasure and profit.
(These2 are less truly friendships, and less permanent, as we have
said; and opinions differ as to whether they are really friendships at all, owing to their
being both like and unlike the same thing. In view of their likeness to friendship based
on virtue they do appear to be friendships, for the one contains pleasure and the other
utility, and these are attributes of that form of friendship too; but in that friendship
based on virtue is proof against calumny, and permanent, while the others quickly change,
besides differing in many other respects, they appear not to be real friendships, owing to
their unlikeness to 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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