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Again, it is perhaps absurd to make our Happy man a solitary,

because no man would choose the possession of all goods in the

world on the condition of solitariness, man being a social animal

and formed by nature for living with others: of course the Happy

man has this qualification since he has all those things which

are good by nature: and it is obvious that the society of friends

and good men must be preferable to that of strangers and ordinary

people, and we conclude, therefore, that the Happy man does need

Friends.