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I call them Friendships, because since men commonly give the name

of friends to those who are connected from motives of profit

(which is justified by political language, for alliances between

states are thought to be contracted with a view to advantage),

and to those who are attached to one another by the motive of

pleasure (as children are), we may perhaps also be allowed to

call such persons friends, and say there are several species of

Friendship; primarily and specially that of the good, in that

they are good, and the rest only in the way of resemblance: I

mean, people connected otherwise are friends in that way in which

there arises to them somewhat good and some mutual resemblance

(because, we must remember the pleasurable is good to those who

are fond of it).