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And this may be clearly seen in that men in private stations are

thought to act justly, not merely no less than men in power but

even more: it will be quite enough that just so much should

belong to a man as is necessary, for his life will be happy who

works in accordance with Virtue.

Solon perhaps drew a fair picture of the Happy, when he said that

they are men moderately supplied with external goods, and who

have achieved the most noble deeds, as he thought, and who have

lived with perfect self-mastery: for it is quite possible for men

of moderate means to act as they ought.

Anaxagoras also seems to have conceived of the Happy man not as

either rich or powerful, saying that he should not wonder if he

were accounted a strange man in the judgment of the multitude:

for they judge by outward circumstances of which alone they have

any perception.