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Single Idea 23919
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship
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Full Idea
Just as if people wish to be healthy they do not become healthy, so if they wish to be friends they are not immediately in fact friends. …[1237b40] For a friend is not to be had without a test or in a single day, but needs time.
Gist of Idea
Friendship cannot be immediate; it takes time, and needs testing
Source
Aristotle (Eudemian Ethics [c.333 BCE], 1237b21)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Eudemian Ethics', ed/tr. Reeve, C.D.C. [Hackett 2021], p.118
A Reaction
The voice of experience, I think. Obviously trust is basic, and it would be unwise to trust a possible friend on the first day. Since politics aims at friendship, I presume the support of the rule of law helps to achieve trust.
Related Ideas
Idea 23916
The best cure for mutual injustice is friendship [Aristotle]
Idea 23915
The main function of politics is to produce friendship [Aristotle]
The
21 ideas
with the same theme
[close personal relationships as a virtue]:
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294
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People say that friendship exists only between good men
[Plato]
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156
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Bad people are never really friends with one another
[Plato]
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3027
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Cyrenaics say wise men are self-sufficient, needing no friends
[Aristippus young, by Diog. Laertius]
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2686
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Aristotle does not confine supreme friendship to moral heroes
[Cooper,JM on Aristotle]
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2687
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For Aristotle in the best friendships the binding force is some excellence of character
[Cooper,JM on Aristotle]
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85
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Bad men can have friendships of utility or pleasure, but only good men can be true friends
[Aristotle]
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23919
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Friendship cannot be immediate; it takes time, and needs testing
[Aristotle]
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23920
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Decent people can be friends with base people
[Aristotle]
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2808
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Master and slave can have friendship through common interests
[Aristotle]
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12275
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We value friendship just for its own sake
[Aristotle]
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1843
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Friendship is by far the most important ingredient of a complete and happy life
[Epicurus]
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511
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It is better to have one intelligent friend than many unintelligent
[Democritus (attr)]
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7895
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Don't befriend fools; either find superior friends, or travel alone
[Anon (Dham)]
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7916
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True friendship is even rarer than true love
[Rochefoucauld]
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21093
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Friendship without community spirit misses out on the main part of virtue
[Hume]
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14841
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Many people are better at having good friends than being a good friend
[Nietzsche]
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14843
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Women can be friends with men, but only some physical antipathy will maintain it
[Nietzsche]
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18295
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If you want friends, you must be a fighter
[Nietzsche]
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23834
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Friendship is partly universal - the love of a person is like the ideal of loving everyone
[Weil]
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7094
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Friends express friendship even when no utility is involved
[Statman]
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2685
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The Greek 'philia' covers all good and fruitful relationships
[Cooper,JM]
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