Kitap 8
4
But since people do apply the term friends to persons whose regard for each other is based on utility, just as states can be friends (since expediency is generally recognized as the motive of international alliances), or on pleasure, as children make friends, perhaps we too must call such relationships friendships; but then we must say that there are several sorts of friendship, that between good men, as good, being friendship in the primary and proper meaning of the term, while the other kinds are friendships in an analogical sense,Literally, by way of resemblance to true friendship : see 3.7, note. since such friends are friends in virtue of a sort of goodness and of likenessPerhaps the words and of likeness are interpolated; the following clause explains goodness only. That utility is a sort of goodness is assumed. in them: insomuch as pleasure is good in the eyes of pleasure-lovers.
5
But these two secondary forms of friendship are not very likely to coincide: men do not make friends with each other both for utility and for pleasure at the same time, since accidental qualities are rarely found in combination.
