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But should one have as
many good friends as possible? or is there a limit of size for a circle of friends, as
there is for the population of a state? Ten people would not make a city, and with a
hundred thousand it is a city no longer; though perhaps the proper size is not one
particular number, but any number between certain limits. So also the number of one's
friends must be limited, and should perhaps be the largest number with whom one can
constantly associate; since, as we saw,1 to live together is the chief mark of friendship,
1 Cf. 8.5.1.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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