EP1: Certain types of friendships are unstable when each friend has dissimilar aims (137)
- Political friendship- a service in exchange for something like money
- Erotic friendship- a relationship based on the exchange of pleasure for pleasure or pleasure for apparent love
EP2: Friendship of character endures through everything because it is done for the sake of itself (137)
IP1: To do something for the sake of itself, rather than doing something for ones own advancement or for an alterior motive, is more virtuous
EP3: In dealing with a friend of any type, what is properly due to that friend should be given in exchange by the other (140-41)
- There is nothing absurd in dissolving the friendship based on utility when the friend no longer becomes useful
- If a friend of yours becomes vicious then it would be wise to end the relationship
- If you yourself notice that you have surpassed your friend in virtue it would also be wise to end the friendship
EP4: The defining features of friendship of character are the same features that define the relation of a decent person to himself (142)
- The decent persons is of one mind and desires the same things in his entire soul
- He wishes to live and to be preserved, and wishes goods upon himself to achieves these things
- He shares his own anxieties and pleasures with himself and enjoys spending time with himself
EP5: Friendship to oneself is a feature of the decent person, and since the friend is another self, decent people that share the feature of friendship with in themselves tend to be friends (142)
EP6: Base or vicious people appear to have the same features as decent people only insofar as they suppose that they are actually decent (143)
EP7: The descent person that has a friendship based on character must love himself (146)
- The decent person of a character of virtue will strive to achieve the finest actions and thus the common good
- As a result of this each indivdual will receive the greatest of goods
- So the good person must be a self lover since he will help himself and benefit others
IP2:If the decent person cannot love himself, since the friend is an extension of himself, then he cannot love his friend
EP8: A vicious person must not love himself, and therefor must not seek friendship (147)
- For the vicious person the correct actions conflict with those actions that he does
- Because of this the vicious person will harm others and himself by loving himself
EP9: The human being is social by nature and therefor needs friends (148)
IP3: The human being is good by nature making socializing among other humans the proper action
EP10: The friendship of base people is marked by vice and is detrimental to each person involved(153)
- They are unstable, share base pursuits, and by becoming similar to each other they grow vicious
EP11: The friendship of decent people is decent and is beneficial to each person involved (153)
- They become better from their activity and mutual correction and this increases each time they meet
