- As Aristotle's said, it's important for friends to "live together." While friendships won't necessarily end because of distance, they will cease to be active.
- After a long time, they'll be forgotten entirely.
- There are certain types of people who don't make good friends: the old and the "sour."
- Basically, these are the people who aren't pleasant to be with.
- If you like someone but don't spend time together, you feel something more like good will toward them, rather than friendship.
- It's not really possible to spend time with grumpy people or those who are totally unalike. Without something to enjoy about a person, it's just not going to happen.
- We have to be able to find what's lovable in a friend. And that means a potential friend has to be generally good and particularly attractive (virtue-wise) to us.
- "Friendly affection" is a passion or feeling, but friendship's a characteristic (virtue) that a person may have.
- It's the virtue that makes us able to wish for good things for a friend, rather than the passionate feeling.
- In being good in this way, we're rewarded by having a good friend in our lives. It's a reciprocal goodness fest.
- This reciprocity in friendship gives rise to equality between friends.