Now since friendship depends more on loving, and it is those who love their friends that are praised, loving seems to be the characteristic virtue of friends, so that it is only those in whom this is found in due measure that are lasting friends, and only their friendship that endures.
aitzitik, nolabait esateko, elkarri eragozten dizkiote horrelakoak, gizaki onak ez baitira okertzen, eta ez diete lagunei uzten okertzen. Zitalak direnek, berriz, ez dute irmotasunik, haiekiko beraiekiko ere berdin irauten ez baitute;