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Then again, the very happy have no need of persons who are

profitable, but of pleasant ones they have because they wish to

have people to live intimately with; and what is painful they

bear for a short time indeed, but continuously no one could

support it, nay, not even the Chief Good itself, if it were

painful to him individually: and so they look out for pleasant

friends: perhaps they ought to require such to be good also; and

good moreover to themselves individually, because then they will

have all the proper requisites of Friendship.