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It may even be held that this is the true self of each,1 inasmuch as it is the dominant and better part;
and therefore it would be a strange thing if a man should choose to live not his own life
but the life of some other than himself.
Moreover what was said before will apply here also: that which is best and most pleasant
for each creature is that which is proper to the nature of each; accordingly the life of
the intellect is the best and the pleasantest life2 for man, inasmuch as the intellect more than anything else is man;
therefore this life will be the happiest.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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