If one has been blessed with good things, then friends of use and pleasure will be of no need to the blessed person. For they will already have useful and pleasure things, and only have a need for friends of good. That is if they have not been corrupted. If one has been blessed with good things, yet is corrupted, then there is the possibility of them becoming filled with greed and want more and more things of use and of pleasure. This would lead to them acquiring more and more friends of use and of pleasure that do no good for the blessed person.
Aristotle states right before 1169b 20, "And perhaps it is absurd to make the blessed person solitary, since no one would choose to have all good things by himself, for a human being is meant for a city and is of such a nature as to live with others." Before I read this I had thought that it was the unhappy person that needs friends and the happy person does not. But after reading this it just makes sense that a happy person needs friends just as much as an unhappy person needs friends. For if a virtuous person has been blessed, then they will need friends in order for them to share their blessings with, friends to give and do favorable acts to. As Aristotle says at 1169b 10, "And if it belongs to a friend to do good more than to receive it, and doing good for others belongs to a good person and to VIRTUE." The more someone is blessed does not equal the more virtuous they are. It is what they do with their blessings that determine how virtuous they are. A blessed person has to have friends if they are striving for a beautiful end; for they must have friends that they can do favoring, good, and virtuous acts towards. As Aristotle said in Book 8, "For no one would choose to live without friends, despite having all the rest of the the good things."
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