On friendship
Beyond benefit
Those who wish well to their friends for their sake are most truly friends.
He who begins to be your friend because it pays will also cease because it pays.
Sources
Aristotle · Nicomachean Ethics VIII.3
W. D. Ross translation.
An excerpt from a longer sentence, with the opening “Now” omitted.
Seneca · Moral Letters to Lucilius 9
Richard M. Gummere translation.
