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Happiness seems to be unquestionably a good, Socrates.
It would be so, Euthydemus, were it not made up of goods that are questionable.
But what element in happiness can be called in question?
None, provided we don’t include in it beauty or strength or wealth or glory or anything of the sort.
But of course we shall do that. For how can anyone be happy without them?
Happiness seems to be unquestionably a good, Socrates.
It would be so, Euthydemus, were it not made up of goods that are questionable.
But what element in happiness can be called in question?
None, provided we don’t include in it beauty or strength or wealth or glory or anything of the sort.
But of course we shall do that. For how can anyone be happy without them?
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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