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The connection then subsisting between the good is Friendship

_par excellence_, as has already been frequently said: since that

which is abstractedly good or pleasant is thought to be an object

of Friendship and choice-worthy, and to each individual whatever

is such to him; and the good man to the good man for both these

reasons.

(Now the entertaining the sentiment is like a feeling, but

Friendship itself like a state: because the former may have for

its object even things inanimate, but requital of Friendship is

attended with moral choice which proceeds from a moral state: and

again, men wish good to the objects of their Friendship for their

sakes, not in the way of a mere feeling but of moral state.)