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This rule would certainly seem applicable to those friends whom we
choose for their utility1; for it
is troublesome to have to repay the services of a large number of people, and life is not
long enough for one to do it. Any more therefore than are sufficient for the requirements
of one's own life will be superfluous, and a hindrance to noble living, so one is better
without them. Of friends for pleasure also a few are enough, just as a small amount of
sweets is enough in one's diet.
1 But cf. 8.6.3.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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