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They again who grasp at honour at the hands of the good and those

who are really acquainted with their merits desire to confirm

their own opinion about themselves: so they take pleasure in the

conviction that they are good, which is based on the sentence of

those who assert it. But in being the objects of Friendship men

delight for its own sake, and so this may be judged to be higher

than being honoured and Friendship to be in itself choice-worthy.