Book 7
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And in fact fathers love their children more than they are loved by them (mothers more so than fathers)This clause is probably an interpolation in the Greek. and these in their turn love their children more than their parents, because activity is the greatest good. And mothers love their children more than fathers, because they think that the children are more their work;
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for people estimate work by its difficulty, and in the production of a child the mother has more pain.
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Such may be our decision on the subject of friendship for oneself and of friendship among more than one.
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It is thought that what is just is something that is equal, and also that friendship is based on equality, if there is truth in the saying Amity is equality. And all constitutions are some species of justice; for they are partnerships, and every partnership is founded on justice, so that there are as many species of justice and of partnership as there are of friendship, and all these species border on each other and have their differentia closely related.
