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But when a pair of lovers exchange not pleasure for pleasure but pleasure for gain, the
friendship is less intense and less lasting.
A friendship based on utility dissolves as soon as its profit ceases; for the friends did
not love each other, but what they got out of each other.
Friendships therefore based on pleasure and on and utility can exist between two bad men,
between one bad man and one good, and between a man neither good nor bad and another
either good, bad, or neither. But clearly only good men can be friends for what they are
in themselves; since bad men do not take pleasure in each other, save as they get some advantage from each other.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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