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On the other hand a limit has to be assumed in these
relationships; for if the list be extended to one's ancestors and descendants and to the
friends of one's friends, it will go on ad infinitum. But
this is a point that must be considered later on; we take a self-sufficient thing to mean
a thing which merely standing by itself alone renders life desirable lacking in
nothing,1 and
such a thing we deem happiness to be.
1 A probable emendation gives ‘renders life sufficient, that is, lacking in nothing.’
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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