Book 2
4.23
And those with whom we are on such terms that we do not blush before them for faults merely condemned by public opinion, provided that this is not due to contempt;
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and those before whom we do blush for faults that are really bad. And those whose rivals we are,Those with whom we are ambitious of entering into competition in the race for distinction (Cope). There is no unfriendliness, whereas envy produces it. or by whom we wish to be emulated, but not envied,—these we either like or wish to be friends with them.
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And those whom we are ready to assist in obtaining what is good, provided greater evil does not result for ourselves.
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And those who show equal fondness for friends, whether absent or present; wherefore all men like those who show such feeling for the dead.
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In a word, men like those who are strongly attached to their friends and do not leave them in the lurch; for among good men they chiefly like those who are good friends.
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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).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 . . . And men like those who are not formidable, and in whom they have confidence; for no one likes one whom he fears.
4.28
Companionship, intimacy, kinship, and similar relations are species of friendship. Things that create friendship are doing a favor,
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and doing it unasked, and not making it public after doing it; for then it seems to have been rendered for the sake of the friend, and not for any other reason.
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As for enmity and hatred, it is evident that they must be examined in the light of their contraries. The causes which produce enmity are anger, spitefulness, slander.
