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Full Idea
We know perfectly well that it is not true that the best life would consist in successfully pretending friendship: having friends to serve one but without being a real friend oneself.
Gist of Idea
We all know that just pretending to be someone's friend is not the good life
Source
Philippa Foot (Natural Goodness [2001], 7)
Book Ref
Foot,Philippa: 'Natural Goodness' [OUP 2003], p.102
A Reaction
For some skallywags the achieving of something for nothing seems to be very much the good life, but not many of them want to exploit people who are seen to be their friends.