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But if happiness consists in activity in accordance with virtue, it is reasonable that it
should be activity in accordance with the highest virtue; and this will be the virtue of
the best part of us. Whether then this be the intellect, or whatever else it be that is
thought to rule and lead us by nature, and to have cognizance of what is noble and divine,
either as being itself also actually divine, or as being relatively the divinest part of
us, it is the activity of this part of us in accordance with the virtue proper to it that
will constitute perfect happiness; and it has been stated already1 that this activity is the activity of contemplation.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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