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There are then three causes from which men feel Friendship: but

the term is not applied to the case of fondness for things

inanimate because there is no requital of the affection nor

desire for the good of those objects: it certainly savours of the

ridiculous to say that a man fond of wine wishes well to it: the

only sense in which it is true being that he wishes it to be kept

safe and sound for his own use and benefit.[3] But to the friend

they say one should wish all good for his sake. And when men do

thus wish good to another (he not reciprocating the feeling),

people call them Kindly; because Friendship they describe as

being "Kindliness between persons who reciprocate it." But must

they not add that the feeling must be mutually known? for many

men are kindly disposed towards those whom they have never seen

but whom they conceive to be amiable or useful: and this notion

amounts to the same thing as a real feeling between them.