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Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in
this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else;
whereas honor, pleasure, intelligence, and excellence in its various forms, we choose
indeed for their own sakes (since we should be glad to have each of them although
no extraneous advantage resulted from it), but we also choose them for the sake
of happiness, in the belief that they will be a means to our securing it. But no one
chooses happiness for the sake of honor, pleasure, etc., nor as a means to anything
whatever other than itself.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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