Kitap 2
4.12
Further, those who are agreeable to live or spend the time with; such are those who are good-tempered and not given to carping at our errors, neither quarrelsome nor contentious, for all such persons are pugnacious, and the wishes of the pugnacious appear to be opposed to ours.
4.13
And those are liked who are clever at making or taking a joke, for each has the same end in view as his neighbor, being able to take a joke and return it in good taste.
4.14
And those who praise our good qualities, especially those which we ourselves are afraid we do not possess;
4.15
those who are neat in their personal appearance and dress, and clean-living;
4.16
those who do not make our errors or the benefits they have conferred a matter of reproach, for both these are inclined to be censorious;
4.17
those who bear no malice and do not cherish the memory of their wrongs, but are easily appeased; for we think that they will be to ourselves such as we suppose them to be to others;
4.18
and those who are neither given to slander, or eager to know the faults of their neighbors nor our own, but only the good qualities;
4.19
for this is the way in which the good man acts. And those who do not oppose us when we are angry or occupied, for such persons are pugnacious; and those who show any good feeling towards us; for instance, if they admire us, think us good men, and take pleasure in our company,
4.20
especially those who are so disposed towards us in regard to things for which we particularly desire to be either admired or to be thought worthy or agreeable.
4.21
And we like those who resemble us and have the same tastes, provided their interests do not clash with ours and that they do not gain their living in the same way; for then it becomes a case of Potter [being jealous] of potter.Two of a trade never agree (Hes. WD 25).
4.22
And those who desire the same things, provided it is possible for us to share them; otherwise the same thing would happen again.
