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Furthermore, the good man wishes to continue to live with

himself; for he can do it with pleasure, in that his memories of

past actions are full of delight and his anticipations of the

future are good and such are pleasurable. Then, again, he has

good store of matter for his Intellect to contemplate, and he

most especially sympathises with his Self in its griefs and joys,

because the objects which give him pain and pleasure are at all

times the same, not one thing to-day and a different one

to-morrow: because he is not given to repentance,[1] if one may

so speak. It is then because each of these feelings are

entertained by the good man towards his own Self and a friend

feels towards a friend as towards himself (a friend being in fact

another Self), that Friendship is thought to be some one of these

things and they are accounted friends in whom they are found.