There are three kinds of friendship, as we said at the outset of our inquiry, and in respect of each some are friends on an equality and others by virtue of a superiority (for not only can equally good men become friends but a better man can make friends with a worse, and similarly in friendships of pleasure or utility the friends may be equal or unequal in the benefits they confer).
Adiskidetasunak hiru direnez-hasieran esan den bezala-, (35) eta hauetako bakoitzean adiskide batzuk berdintasunaren eta beste batzuk nagusitasun baten arabera direnez (antzeko neurrian onak direnak adiskide egiten baitira, eta nagusia dena menpekoa denarekin ere bai; (1162b) berdin, plazerarengatik eta onurarengatik adiskide direnek elkarrengandik etekin berdinak edo desberdinak lor ditzakete).