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Moreover,
as friendship appears to be the bond of the state; and lawgivers seem to set more store by
it than they do by justice, for to promote concord, which seems akin to friendship, is
their chief aim, while faction, which is enmity, is what they are most anxious to banish.
And if men are friends, there is no need of justice between them; whereas merely to be
just is not enough—a feeling of friendship also is necessary. Indeed the highest
form of justice seems to have an element of friendly feeling in it.1
1 Or possibly, ‘And the just are thought to possess friendliness in its highest form.’
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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