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These secondary Friendships, however, do not combine very well;

that is to say, the same persons do not become friends by reason

of advantage and by reason of the pleasurable, for these matters

of result are not often combined. And Friendship having been

divided into these kinds, bad men will be friends by reason of

pleasure or profit, this being their point of resemblance; while

the good are friends for one another's sake, that is, in so far

as they are good.

These last may be termed abstractedly and simply friends, the

former as a matter of result and termed friends from their

resemblance to these last.

Chapter VI.