“Perfect friendship”, declared Aristotle, “subsists between those who are good and whose similarity consists in their goodness: for these men wish one another’s good in similar ways.” He distinguished this kind of friendship from other, lesser forms, which were based on advantage or pleasure, and which were not as lasting.
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