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Perhaps then we may say that,
when the friendship is one of utility, the measure of the service should be its value to
the recipient, since it is he who wants it, and the other comes to his aid in the
expectation of an equivalent return; therefore the degree of assistance rendered has been
the amount to which the recipient has benefited,
and so he ought to pay back as much as he has got out of it; or even more, for that will
be more noble.
In friendships based on virtue, complaints do not arise, but the measure of the benefit
seems to be the intention1 of the giver; for
intention is the predominant factor in virtue and in character.
1 Lit., ‘choice’ in Aristotle's technical sense.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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