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Now we stated1 that happiness is not
a certain disposition of character; since if it were it might be possessed by a man who
passed the whole of his chosen life asleep, living the life of a vegetable, or by one who
was plunged in the deepest misfortune. If then we reject this as unsatisfactory, and feel bound to
class happiness rather as some form of activity, as has been said in the earlier part of
this treatise, and if activities are of two kinds, some merely necessary means and
desirable only for the sake of something else, others desirable in themselves, it is clear
that happiness is to be classed among activities desirable in themselves, and not among
those desirable as a means to something else; since happiness lacks nothing, and is
self-sufficient.
1 See 1.8.9.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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