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But the golden mean, says our matter of fact Philosopher is not all of the secret of happiness we must have too, a fair degree of worldly goods; Poverty makes one stingy and grasping while possessions give one that freedom from care and greed which is the source of aristocratic ease and charm the nobelest of these external aids to happiness is friendship. Indeed friendship is more necessary to the happy than the unhappy. For happiness is multiplied by being share (D) it is more important that justice for when men are friends, justice is unnecessary but when men are just, friendship still a boon. A friendship is one soul in two bodies. Yet friendship implies new friends rather than many; he who has many friends; he has no friend and to be a friend to many people in the way of perfect friendship is impossible. Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity and this implies stability of character; it is to after character that we must attribute the dissolving kaleidoscope of friendship and friendship required equality; for gratitude gives it at best a slippery base. Benefactors are commonly held to have more friendship for the obsects of their kindness that these for them. Aristotle prefers to believe that the greater tendered ness of the benefactor is to be explained on the analogy of the artists affection for his work, or the mother's for her child we love that which we made.
But the golden mean, says our matter of fact Philosopher is not all of the secret of happiness we must have too, a fair degree of worldly goods; Poverty makes one stingy and grasping while possessions give one that freedom from care and greed which is the source of aristocratic ease and charm the nobelest of these external aids to happiness is friendship. Indeed friendship is more necessary to the happy than the unhappy. For happiness is multiplied by being share (D) it is more important that justice for when men are friends, justice is unnecessary but when men are just, friendship still a boon. A friendship is one soul in two bodies. Yet friendship implies new friends rather than many; he who has many friends; he has no friend and to be a friend to many people in the way of perfect friendship is impossible. Fine friendship requires duration rather than fitful intensity and this implies stability of character; it is to after character that we must attribute the dissolving kaleidoscope of friendship and friendship required equality; for gratitude gives it at best a slippery base. Benefactors are commonly held to have more friendship for the obsects of their kindness that these for them. Aristotle prefers to believe that the greater tendered ness of the benefactor is to be explained on the analogy of the artists affection for his work, or the mother's for her child we love that which we made.
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