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This is the reason why they form and dissolve Friendships

rapidly: since the Friendship changes with the pleasurable object

and such pleasure changes quickly.

The young are also much given up to Love; this passion being, in

great measure, a matter of impulse and based on pleasure: for

which cause they conceive Friendships and quickly drop them,

changing often in the same day: but these wish for society and

intimate intercourse with their friends, since they thus attain

the object of their Friendship.

Chapter V.