# Quote — Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

> May not we then confidently pronounce that man happy who realizes complete goodness in action, and is adequately furnished with external goods? Or should we add, that he must also be destined to go on living not for any casual period but throughout a complete lifetime in the same manner, and to die accordingly, because the future is hidden from us, and we conceive happiness as an end, something utterly and absolutely final and complete? If this is so, we shall pronounce those of the living who possess and are destined to go on possessing the good things we have specified to be supremely blessed, though on the human scale of bliss.

- Author: [Aristotle](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle.md)
- Book: [Nicomachean Ethics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics.md)
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- Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md)
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## More from this book

> For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant.... Now for most men their pleasures are in conflict with one another because these are not by nature pleasant, but the lovers of what is noble find pleasant the things that are by nature pleasant; and virtuous actions are such... Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos: Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health; but pleasantest is it to win what we love.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/for-pleasure-is-a-state.md)

> Any one can get angry — that is easy — or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for every one, nor is it easy.

p. 203 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/any-one-can.md)

> Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/aristotle/nicomachean-ethics/without-friends-no-one.md)