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[3] These friendships then involve a superiority of benefits on one side, which is why parents receive honor as well as service.1 The claims of justice also, therefore, in these relations are not the same on both sides, but proportionate to desert, as is the affection bestowed.

1 Sc., because their children cannot fully repay their services in kind.

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