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Now in these unequal friendships the benefits that one
party receives and is entitled to claim from the other are not the same on either side;
but the friendship between parents and children will be enduring and equitable, when the
children render to the parents the services due to the authors of one's being, and the
parents to the children those due to one's offspring. The affection rendered in these
various unequal friendships should also be proportionate1: the
better of the two parties, for instance, or the more useful or otherwise superior as the
case may be, should receive more affection than he bestows; since when the affection
rendered is proportionate to desert, this produces equality in a sense between the
parties, and equality is felt to be an essential element of friendship.
1 i.e., unequal, and proportionate to the benefits received.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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