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[4]
On the other hand, suppose one friend to have remained the same while the other has
improved, and become greatly the superior in virtue: ought the latter to keep up the
friendship? Perhaps it is out of the question; and this becomes especially clear when the
gap between them is a wide one, as may happen with two people who were friends in boyhood.
One may have remained a boy in mind, while the other is a man of the highest ability; how
can they be friends, when they have different tastes and different likes and dislikes?
They will no longer even enjoy each other's society; but without this, intercourse and
therefore friendship are, as we saw,1
impossible. But this has been discussed already.
1 Cf. 8.5.3.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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