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And for this reason all men think the happy life is pleasant, and

interweave Pleasure with Happiness. Reasonably enough: because

Happiness is perfect, but no impeded active working is perfect;

and therefore the happy man needs as an addition the goods of the

body and the goods external and fortune that in these points he

may not be fettered. As for those who say that he who is being

tortured on the wheel, or falls into great misfortunes is happy

provided only he be good, they talk nonsense, whether they mean

to do so or not. On the other hand, because fortune is needed as

an addition, some hold good fortune to be identical with

Happiness: which it is not, for even this in excess is a

hindrance, and perhaps then has no right to be called good

fortune since it is good only in so far as it contributes to

Happiness.

The fact that all animals, brute and human alike, pursue

Pleasure, is some presumption of its being in a sense the Chief

Good;