§2.11.45φιλίαν εἶναι· διὸ καὶ ὅσα περ δικαίων εἴδη, τοσαῦτα καὶ φιλιὧν.
there is friendship; therefore, as many as the forms of justice are, so many are also the forms of friendships.
τὸ δὴ δίκαιδν ἐστιν καὶ ξένῳ πρὸς πολίτην καὶ δούλῳ πρὸς δεσπότην καὶ πολίτῃ πρὸς πολίτην καὶ υἱῷ πρὸς πατέρα καὶ γυναικ πρὸς ἄνδρα, καὶ ὅσαι ἁπλῶς ἄλλαι κοινωνίαι καὶ φιλίαι ἔνεισιν ἐν ἑκάστοτς τούτων.
For justice is for a stranger toward a citizen, and for a slave toward a master, and for a citizen toward a citizen, and for a son toward a father, and for a wife toward a husband, and simply in as many other communities and friendships as exist in each of these.
§2.11.46βεβαιοτάτη δʼ ἂν δόξειεν εἶναι τῶν φιλιῶν ἡ ξεντκή· οὐ γάρ ἐστιν σὖδὲν αὐτοῖς τέλος κοινὸν ὑπὲρ σὖ ἀμφισβητοθσιν, οἷον ἐν τοῖς πολίταις· διαμφισβητεῦντες γὰρ πρὸς ἀλλήλους κατὰ τὴν ὑπεροχὴν οὐ μένουσιν φίλοι ὄντες.
And the friendship of host and guest would seem to be the most stable of friendships; for they have no common end over which they dispute, as exists among citizens; for citizens, disputing with one another in accordance with superiority, do not remain friends.
§2.11.47ἐχόμενον δ' ἂν εἴη νῦν εἰπεῖν, πότερόν ἐστι πρὸς αὑτὸν φιλία, ἢ οὔ.
And it would follow next to say now whether there is friendship toward oneself, or not.
ἐπεὶ δʼ οὖν ὁρῶμεν, ὥσπερ καὶ μικρὸν ἐπάνω ἐλέγομεν, ὅτι ἐκ μὲν τῶν καθʼ ἕκαστα τὸ φιλεῖν γνωρίζεται τὰ δὲ καθʼ ἕκαστα αὐτοὶ αὑτοῖς ἂν μάλιστα βουλοίμεθα (καὶ γὰρ τἀγαθὰ καὶ τὸ εἶναι καὶ τὸ εὖ εἶναι· ὁμσιοπαθέστατοι δʼ αὐτοῖς ἡμῖν ἐσμέν· καὶ συζῆν δὲ μεθʼ ἑαυτῶν μάλιστα βουλόμεθα)· ὥστ᾿ εἰ μὲν ἐκ τῶν καθ᾿ ἕκαστα γνωρίζεναι ἡ φιλία, τὰ δὲ καθʼ ἕκαστα ἡμῖν αὐτοῖς ἂν βουλοίμεθα ὑπάρχειν, δῆλόν ἔστιν ὡς ἔστι πρὸς αὑτοὺς φιλία, ὥσπερ καὶ τὴν ἀδικίαν ἔφαμεν πρὸς αὑτὸν εἶναι.
Since, then, we see, just as we were saying a little above, that loving is recognized from particular things, and we would wish the particular things most of all for ourselves (for indeed good things, and to be, and to be well; and we share feelings most of all with ourselves; and we wish to live together with ourselves most of all); so that if friendship is recognized from particular things, and we would wish the particular things to belong to ourselves, it is clear that there is friendship toward ourselves, just as we also said that injustice is toward oneself.
§2.11.48ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἕτερος μὲν ὁ ἀδικῶν ἕτερος δὲ ὁ ἀδικούμενος, ὁ αὐτὸ δʼ εἷς ἐστιν ἕκαστος, διὰ τὸ τοιοῦτον οὐκ ἐδόκει εἶναι πρὸς αὑτὸν ἀδτκία· ἔσει μέντοι, ὡς ἔφαμεν σκοποῦντες ἐπὶ τῶν τῆς ψυχῆς μερῶν, ἐπειδή ἐστι πλείω, ὅταν ταῦτα μὴ ὁμονοῶσιν, τότε εἷναι πρὸς αὑτὸν τὴν ἀδικίαν.
For since the one who acts unjustly is one and the one who is treated unjustly is another, while each individual is one and the same, for such a reason it did not seem that there is injustice toward oneself; yet there is, as we said when examining the parts of the soul, since they are more than one, when these do not agree, then there is injustice toward oneself.
§2.11.49ὁμοίως οὖν τούτφ καὶ ἡ φιλία δόξειεν ἂν εἶναι πρὸς αὑτόν.
In like manner, therefore, to this, friendship also would seem to be toward oneself.
ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ὁ φίλος ἐστίν, ὡς φαμέν, ὅταν βουλώμεθα σφόδρα φίλον εἰπεῖν, μία φαμὲν ψυχὴ ἡ ἐμὴ καὶ ἡ τούτου· ἐπεὶ οὖν ἐστι τῆς ψυχῆς πλείω μέρη, τότʼ ἔσται μία ψυχή, ὅταν συμφωνῶσι πρὸς ἄλληλα τε λόγος καὶ τὰ πάθη (οὕτω γὰρ μία ἔσται)· ὥστε μιᾶς γενομένης ἔσται πρὰς αὑτὸν φιλία.
For since a friend is, as we say when we wish to express an extreme friend, "my soul and his are one"; since, then, there are more parts of the soul, then there will be one soul, when both the reason and the passions agree with each other (for in this way it will be one); so that when it becomes one, there will be friendship toward oneself.
§2.11.50αὕτη δʼ ἔσται ἡ πρὸς αὑτὸν φιλία ἐν τῷ σπουδαίφ· τούτῳ γὰρ μόνῳ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς εὖ ἔχουσιν μέρη πρὸς ἄλληλα τῷ μὴ διαφέρεσθαι, ἐπεὶ ὅ γε φαῦλος οὐδέποτʼ ἐστὶν αὐτὸς αὑτῷ φίλος, μάχεται γὰρ ἀεὶ ἑαυτῷ.
And this friendship toward oneself will exist in the good man; for in him alone do the parts of the soul stand in a good state toward each other by not differing, since the base man is never a friend to himself, for he always fights with himself.
ὁ γοῦν ἀκρατής, ὅταν πράξῃ τι τῶν καθʼ ἡδονήν, μετʼ οὐ πολὺ μεταμελεῖται καὶ κακίζει αὐτὸς αὑτόν· ὁμοίως ἐπὶ τῶν ἄλλων κακιῶν ὁ φαῦλος ἔχει.
The incontinent man, at any rate, when he has done something of those things in accordance with pleasure, not long after repents and censures himself; in like manner in the case of the other vices the base man is.
διατελεῖ γὰρ αὐτὸς αὑτῷ μαχόμενος καὶ ἐναντιούμενος.
For he continues fighting and opposing himself.
§2.11.51ἔστιν δὲ φιλία καὶ ἐν ἰσότηπι, οἷον ἡ μὲν τῶν ἑταίρων ἐν ἰσότητι ἀριθμῷ καὶ δυνάμει ἀγαθοῦ (οὐδέτερος γὰρ αὐτῶν ἐσπιν ἄξιος θατέρου πλέον ἔχειν οὔτε κατʼ ἀριθμὸν ἀγαθῶν οὔτε κατὰ δύναμιν οὔτε κατὰ μέγεθος, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἴσον· ἴσοι γάρ τινες ἐθέλουσιν εἶναι οἱ ἑταῖροι)
And friendship exists also in equality, such as that of companions in equality of number and power of good (for neither of them is worthy to have more than the other either in number of goods, or in power, or in magnitude, but the equal; for companions wish to be certain equals).
§2.11.52ἐν ἀνισότητι δὲ ἡ πατρὸς πρὸς υἱόν, καὶ ἀρχομένου καὶ ἄρχοντος, καὶ κρείττονος καὶ χείρονος, καὶ γυναικὸς καὶ ἀνδρός, καὶ ἁπλῶς ἐν οἷς ἐστιν ὁ τὴν τοῦ χείρονος καὶ κρείττονος τάξιν ἔχων ἐν τῇ φιλίᾳ.
And in inequality, that of father to son, and of ruled and ruler, and of better and worse, and of wife and husband, and simply in those relations in which there is the one having the order of the worse and of the better in the friendship.
§2.11.53αὕτη γάρ ἐστιν ἡ ἐν ἀνισότητι φιλία κατὰ λόγον.
For this is the friendship in inequality according to proportion.
οὐδέποτε γὰρ ἐπʼ ἀγαθοῦ δόσει οὐδεὶς ἴσον ἂν δοίη τῷ βελτίονι καὶ τῷ χείρονι, ἀλλὰ μεῖζον τῷ καθʼ ὑπεροχὴν ὄντι ἀεί.
For never in the giving of good would anyone give an equal share to the better and to the worse, but always a greater share to the one who is in superiority.
τοῦτο δʼ ἴσον ἐστὶν τῷ λόγῳ· ἴσον γάρ πώς ἐστιν ὁ τὸ ἔλαττον ἔχων ἀγαθὸν χείρων ὢν τῷ μεῖζον ἔχοντι κρείττονι ὄντι.
And this is equal according to proportion; for in a way the one who is worse, having the lesser good, is equal to the one who is better, having the greater.