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So far as name goes, there is a pretty general agreement: for

HAPPINESS both the multitude and the refined few call it, and

"living well" and "doing well" they conceive to be the same with

"being happy;" but about the Nature of this Happiness, men

dispute, and the multitude do not in their account of it agree

with the wise. For some say it is some one of those things which

are palpable and apparent, as pleasure or wealth or honour; in

fact, some one thing, some another; nay, oftentimes the same man

gives a different account of it; for when ill, he calls it

health; when poor, wealth: and conscious of their own ignorance,

men admire those who talk grandly and above their comprehension.

Some again held it to be something by itself, other than and

beside these many good things, which is in fact to all these the

cause of their being good.