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QUARRELS also spring up in friendships where there is inequality between the friends.Each regards himself as entitled to more than he has,and when you get a state of affairs like that,a rupture is inevitable.When one of the friends has a better moral character than the other,he thinks that more is due to him on the principle that goodness should always have the preference.But then the more useful friend puts in a similar claim,arguing that one who has no useful contribution to make to the partnership is not entitled to an equal share in the profits;it is expecting the man to be a philanthropist,not a friend,if he is not to draw from the friendship any advantage at all proportionate to the efforts he has made to make it a success.-excerpt from:Chapter Fourteen, Book Eight-THE ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE / There is no point here-except to show how Aristotle uses words.
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