The value of a commodity or possession . Surely, we cannot, if not everything, but only what is good, is lovable. Wickedness cannot be tolerated in a friend, lest we become wicked too. Friendship with a person gone bad should be discontinued . We must try our utmost to be good for the sake of ourselves and our friends .
Virtuous citizens make good civic friends and a good and just society .
Men value more the things they acquire through their own efforts . Treating others well takes an effort. Therefore, men value friends . If a man were always anxious that he himself, above all things, should act justly, temperately, or in accordance with any other of the virtues, and in general were always to try to secure for himself the honourable course, no one would call such a man a lover of self or blame him. A virtuous man is never accused of self-love .