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Accordingly, neither the old nor the morose appear to be

calculated for Friendship, because the pleasurableness in them is

small, and no one can spend his days in company with that which

is positively painful or even not pleasurable; since to avoid the

painful and aim at the pleasurable is one of the most obvious

tendencies of human nature. They who get on with one another very

fairly, but are not in habits of intimacy, are rather like people

having kindly feelings towards one another than friends; nothing

being so characteristic of friends as the living with one

another, because the necessitous desire assistance, and the happy

companionship, they being the last persons in the world for

solitary existence: but people cannot spend their time together

unless they are mutually pleasurable and take pleasure in the

same objects, a quality which is thought to appertain to the

Friendship of companionship.

Chapter VII.