ence as good unless it brings some profit and they regard their friends as they do their cattle, valuing most highly those which give hope of the largest gain. [80] Thus do they fail to attain that loveliest, most spontaneous friendship, which is desirable in and for itself; and they do not learn from their own experience what the power of such friendship is and are ignorant of its nature and extent. For everyone loves himself, not with a view of acquiring some profit for himself from his self-love,