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"Although this well-wishing is very cool, itdoes testify to an element of true disinterestedness in friendship. Third,a friend is someone who enjoys spending time with a person, and fourth,someone who chooses the same things. Fifth and nally, a friend is one whoshares the sorrows and joys of his friend (!!a#$%."

"At a deeper level, however, Aristotle will argue that onlyvirtuous people can have the inner harmony and wholeness that allow oneto &e most truly a friend to oneself."

"The wise man will not &e torn &etween the seemingly no&le andthe seemingly good, for he grasps with all his soul the truth that the trulyno&le and the truly good are one and the same."

"'hen we tae the virtues and vices one &y one and e)amine them closely,through a magnifying glass as it were, vice loos very di*erent from moralweaness, &ecause the vicious seem to have no hesitations and no regrets."

"Aristotle+s comment on the rst criterion of friendship, thewish for and pursuit of the good of the one who is loved, puts such suicidesin their proper conte)t. Aristotle says without ualication that everyonewants the good for himself (!!a/#$%, implying that even those who

ill themselves see a death that has come to seem &est for them, either&ecause life has &ecome un&eara&le or &ecause, lie 0udas 1scariot, theyhope that &y punishing their own iniuity they may in some measure redeemthemselves."

"The mind, with its faculties of

judgment and deliberation, shapes all human experience, including the

experience we have of ourselves. It is the mind that transforms sensory

data into the recognition of objects as objects and of the world as a world.These functions of the mind are so central to us that while we can with

difficulty imagine being creatures who are devoid of emotion and are meredispassionate observers, it is impossible for us even to imagine being beings

that cannot perceive and think. Moreover, it is the minds continuity ofawareness through time that provides us with the sense of a self that persists

through changing experience. !ithout the minds memories, we would

literally not know who we are."

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"2ut those who insist on the importance of the heart have glimpsedan important truth. They see that if practical reasoning &egins not with the

deepest concerns and longings of the soul as they actually are &ut, instead,with an articial construct of what one imagines a rational human &eing to&e and to care a&out, this reasoning is unliely to lead to a happy life."

"That 3eason which gives the good man his unity of life, and in virtue of which he is hisown constant friend, is realised not in an isolated individual &ut in a citi4en. . . . Theself which the good man loves so constantly is not the isolated self of sense whichsees its own good at the cost of others, &ut the rational self which consists in the

happy consciousness of &eing joined together with others in a &eautiful social order./"