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Show PHILOSOPHY OF HAPPINESS. j Let us therefore be well agreed that 'so much of happiness falls to the lot of every one as he possesses of virtue and wisdom and in proportion as he acts according to their dictates; since for this we have the example of God Himself, who is completely happy, not from any external good, but in Himself, Him-self, and because He is such by nature. For the good fortune is something of necessity different from happiness, aa every external good of the soul is produced pro-duced by chance of by fortune; but it j is not from fortune that any one is just or wise. Hence it follows, as established es-tablished by the same reasoning, that the state which is best, and acts best, will be happy; for no one car fare well who acts not well; nor can the actions either of man or city be praiseworthy without virtue and wisdom. For valor, justice and wisdom have in a state the same force and form as individuals; individu-als; and it is only as he shares in these virtues that each man is said to be just, wise and prudent. Aristotle. |