Rhetoric   

we feel friendly to those who have treated us well, either ourselves
or those we care for, whether on a large scale, or readily, or at some
particular crisis; provided it was for our own sake. And also to those
who we think wish to treat us well. And also to our friends' friends,
and to those who like, or are liked by, those whom we like ourselves.
And also to those who are enemies to those whose enemies we are, and
dislike, or are disliked by, those whom we dislike. For all such
persons think the things good which we think good, so that they wish
what is good for us; and this, as we saw, is what friends must do. And
also to those who are willing to treat us well where money or our
personal safety is concerned: and therefore we value those who are
liberal, brave, or just. The just we consider to be those who do not
live on others; which means those who work for their living,
especially farmers and others who work with their own hands. We also
like temperate men, because they are not unjust to others; and, for
the same reason, those who mind their own business. And also those
whose friends we wish to be, if it is plain that they wish to be our
friends: such are the morally good, and those well thought of by every
one, by the best men, or by those whom we admire or who admire us. And
also those with whom it is pleasant to live and spend our days: such
are the good-tempered, and those who are not too ready to show us our
mistakes, and those who are not cantankerous or quarrelsome-such
people are always wanting to fight us, and those who fight us we feel
wish for the opposite of what we wish for ourselves-and those who have
the tact to make and take a joke; here both parties have the same
object in view, when they can stand being made fun of as well as do it
prettily themselves. And we also feel friendly towards those who
praise such good qualities as we possess, and especially if they
praise the good qualities that we are not too sure we do possess. And
towards those who are cleanly in their person, their dress, and all
their way of life. And towards those who do not reproach us with what
we have done amiss to them or they have done to help us, for both
actions show a tendency to criticize us. And towards those who do not
nurse grudges or store up grievances, but are always ready to make
friends again; for we take it that they will behave to us just as we
find them behaving to every one else. And towards those who are not
evil speakers and who are aware of neither their neighbours' bad
points nor our own, but of our good ones only, as a good man always
will be. And towards those who do not try to thwart us when we are
angry or in earnest, which would mean being ready to fight us. And
towards those who have some serious feeling towards us, such as
admiration for us, or belief in our goodness, or pleasure in our
company; especially if they feel like this about qualities in us for
which we especially wish to be admired, esteemed, or liked. And
towards those who are like ourselves in character and occupation,
provided they do not get in our way or gain their living from the same
source as we do-for then it will be a case of 'potter against potter':
"Potter to potter and builder to builder begrudge their reward. "
And those who desire the same things as we desire, if it is possible
for us both to share them together; otherwise the same trouble arises
here too. And towards those with whom we are on such terms that, while
we respect their opinions, we need not blush before them for doing
what is conventionally wrong: as well as towards those before whom we
should be ashamed to do anything really wrong. Again, our rivals, and
those whom we should like to envy us--though without
ill-feeling--either we like these people or at least we wish them to
like us. And we feel friendly towards those whom we help to secure
good for themselves, provided we are not likely to suffer heavily by
it ourselves. And those who feel as friendly to us when we are not
with them as when we are-which is why all men feel friendly towards
those who are faithful to their dead friends. And, speaking generally,
towards those who are really fond of their friends and do not desert
them in trouble; of all good men, we feel most friendly to those who
show their goodness as friends. Also towards those who are honest with