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Again, it is held that the Happy Life must be one in the way of

Excellence, and this is accompanied by earnestness,[13] and

stands not in amusement. Moreover those things which are done in

earnest, we say, are better than things merely ludicrous and

joined with amusement: and we say that the Working of the better

part, or the better man, is more earnest; and the Working of the

better is at once better and more capable of Happiness.

Then, again, as for bodily Pleasures, any ordinary person, or

even a slave, might enjoy them, just as well as the best man

living but Happiness no one supposes a slave to share except so

far as it is implied in life: because Happiness stands not in

such pastimes but in the Workings in the way of Excellence, as

has also been stated before.

Chapter VI.