"[...] that which is good without qualification is also without qualification pleasant, and these are the most lovable qualities [...] such friendship requires time and familiarity; as the proverb says, men cannot know each other till they have 'eaten salt together'; nor can they admit each other to friendship or be friends till each has been found lovable and been trusted by each. Those who quickly show the marks of friendship to each other wish to be friends, but are not friends unless they both are lovable and know the fact; for a wish for friendship may arise quickly, but friendship does not."
From "Nichomachean ethics", Book VIII, Chapter 2, p. 1060 in The Basic Works of Aristotle, edited by Richard McKeon (Random House, New York, 1941).
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