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Friendship of this kind is thought to exist principally among the

old (because men at that time of life pursue not what is

pleasurable but what is profitable); and in such, of men in their

prime and of the young, as are given to the pursuit of profit.

They that are such have no intimate intercourse with one another;

for sometimes they are not even pleasurable to one another; nor,

in fact, do they desire such intercourse unless their friends are

profitable to them, because they are pleasurable only in so far

as they have hopes of advantage. With these Friendships is

commonly ranked that of hospitality.

But the Friendship of the young is thought to be based on the

motive of pleasure: because they live at the beck and call of

passion and generally pursue what is pleasurable to themselves

and the object of the present moment: and as their age changes so

likewise do their pleasures.