And since these virtues are also connected to feelings, they are concerned with the compound. Since the virtues of the compound are human virtues, the life and the happiness expressing these virtues is also human. Our virtue of character is bound up with our passions and with our intelligence . Together they make up our human virtues which we practice in order to attain happiness in life. Thus happiness is a form of contemplation.
Happiness grows with contemplation .
However, the bodily needs and a comfortable existence are also important to have. A man's life will be happy if he acts in accordance with virtue. Even if a person is but of modest means materially, he can attain happiness by living a virtuous life . Now if arguments were sufficient by themselves to make people decent, the rewards they would command would justifiably have been many and large, as Theognis says, and rightly bestowed. Living by passion they pursue their own pleasures and the means to them, and avoid the opposite pains, and have not even a conception of what is noble and truly pleasant, since they have never tasted it.