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Also it is by rendering affection in proportion to desert that friends who are not equals
may approach most nearly to true friendship, since this will make them equal. Amity
consists in equality and similarity, especially the similarity of those who are alike in
virtue; for being true to themselves, these also remain true to one another, and neither
request nor render services that are morally degrading. Indeed they may be said actually
to restrain each other from evil: since good men neither err themselves nor permit their
friends to err. Bad men on the other hand have no constancy in friendship, for they do not
even remain true to their own characters; but they can be friends for a short time, while
they take pleasure in each other's wickedness.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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