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And Friendship of this kind has also the pleasurable and the

profitable more than that between persons unconnected by blood,

in proportion as their life is also more shared in common. Then

again in the Fraternal Friendship there is all that there is in

that of Companions, and more in the good, and generally in those

who are alike; in proportion as they are more closely tied and

from their very birth have a feeling of affection for one another

to begin with, and as they are more like in disposition who

spring from the same stock and have grown up together and been

educated alike: and besides this they have the greatest

opportunities in respect of time for proving one another, and can

therefore depend most securely upon the trial.