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People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life.
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One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly, one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
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If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.
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Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
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For some identify happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophic wisdom, others with these, or one of these, accompanied by pleasure or not without pleasure; while others include also external prosperity. Now … it is not probable that these should be entirely mistaken, but rather that they should be right in at least some one respect or even in most respects.
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383 BC
Died:
321 BC
(aged 62)
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