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Now surely in respect of those whose motive to Friendship is

utility or pleasure there can be nothing wrong in breaking up the

connection when they no longer have those qualities; because they

were friends [not of one another, but] of those qualities: and,

these having failed, it is only reasonable to expect that they

should cease to entertain the sentiment.

But a man has reason to find fault if the other party, being

really attached to him because of advantage or pleasure,

pretended to be so because of his moral character: in fact, as we

said at the commencement, the most common source of quarrels

between friends is their not being friends on the same grounds as

they suppose themselves to be.