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If then of all the actions in accordance with the various virtues

those of policy and war are pre-eminent in honour and greatness,

and these are restless, and aim at some further End and are not

choice-worthy for their own sakes, but the Working of the

Intellect, being apt for contemplation, is thought to excel in

earnestness, and to aim at no End beyond itself and to have

Pleasure of its own which helps to increase the Working, and if

the attributes of Self-Sufficiency, and capacity of rest, and

unweariedness (as far as is compatible with the infirmity of

human nature), and all other attributes of the highest Happiness,

plainly belong to this Working, this must be perfect Happiness,

if attaining a complete duration of life, which condition is

added because none of the points of Happiness is incomplete.