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In fact this Principle would seem to constitute each man's

"Self," since it is supreme and above all others in goodness it

would be absurd then for a man not to choose his own life but

that of some other.

And here will apply an observation made before, that whatever is

proper to each is naturally best and pleasantest to him: such

then is to Man the life in accordance with pure Intellect (since

this Principle is most truly Man), and if so, then it is also the

happiest.