Aristotle's claim that it is difficult, if not impossible, to perform noble acts without external goods such as money or health. But it makes, perhaps, no small difference whether we place the chief good in possession or in use, in state of mind or in activity. Their life is also in itself pleasant. Their life, therefore, has no further need of pleasure as a sort of adventitious charm, but has its pleasure in itself. If this is so, virtuous actions must be in themselves pleasant.
Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world. . .
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