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Solon also doubtless gave a good description of happiness,1 when he said that in his opinion those men were
happy who, being moderately equipped with external goods, had performed noble exploits and
had lived temperately; for it is possible for a man of but moderate possessions to do what
is right. Anaxagoras again does not seem to have conceived the happy man as rich or
powerful, since he says that he would not be surprised if he were to appear a strange sort
of person in the eyes of the many; for most men judge by externals, which are all that
they can perceive.
1 Solon in his conversation with Croesus （Hdt.1.30-32, see 1.10.1, note） says that Tellus the Athenian was the happiest man he ever knew. Tellus was well off, he lived to see his children's children, and he died gloriously in battle.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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