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Now these qualities differ in kind; hence the affection or friendship they occasion may
differ in kind also. There are accordingly three kinds of friendship, corresponding in
number to the three lovable qualities; since a reciprocal affection, known to either
party, can be based on each of the three, and when men love each other, they wish each
other well in respect of the quality which is the ground of their friendship.1 Thus friends whose affection is based on utility do
not love each other in themselves, but in so far as some benefit accrues to them from each
other. And similarly with those whose friendship is based on pleasure: for instance, we
enjoy the society of witty people not because of what they are in themselves, but because
they are agreeable to us.
1 i.e., they wish each other to become more virtuous, pleasant, or useful as the case may be; so that there is a different species of will-wishing in each case.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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