Friendship should be true, right and holy.
When we love our fellow only in so far as they are of use to us, they are not truly loved; we are really loving ourselves and using other people as though they were for our convenience. We do not truly love them as ourselves. He who loves another merely for his own profit or pleasure stands convicted of selfishness. Charity seeketh not her own, but the good of the beloved. Then secondly, the love of another should be fair and tight, which means that a greater benefit must be prefered to a less. The good of soul must hold the first place, then afterwards comes the body, and lastly external possessions.
-St. Thomas Aquinas
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