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I mean, people define a friend to be "one who intends and does

what is good (or what he believes to be good) to another for that

other's sake," or "one who wishes his friend to be and to live

for that friend's own sake" (which is the feeling of mothers

towards their children, and of friends who have come into

collision). Others again, "one who lives with another and chooses

the same objects," or "one who sympathises with his friend in his

sorrows and in his joys" (this too is especially the case with

mothers).

Well, by some one of these marks people generally characterise

Friendship: and each of these the good man has towards himself,

and all others have them in so far as they suppose themselves to

be good. (For, as has been said before, goodness, that is the

good man, seems to be a measure to every one else.)