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And those who do not dissemble with
them; such are those who do not fear to mention even their faults.
（For, as we have said, before friends we do not blush for faults merely
condemned by public opinion; if then he who blushes for such faults is not a
friend, he who does not is likely to be one）.1
And men like those who are not formidable, and in whom they have confidence; for
no one likes one whom he fears.
1 A parenthetical remark. Aristotle explains that he is not thinking of merely conventional faults; if, then, one who is ashamed of these is no friend, then one who is not . . .
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 22, translated by J. H. Freese. Aristotle. Cambridge and London. Harvard University Press; William Heinemann Ltd. 1926.
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