happiness evidently also needs external goods to be added [to the
activity], as we said, since we cannot, or cannot easily, do fine actions if we lack the resources.
For, first
of all, in many actions we use friends, wealth and political power just as we use instruments. Further, deprivation
of certain [externals]--e.g. good birth, good children, beauty--mars our blessedness; for we do not altogether have
the character of happiness if we look utterly repulsive or are ill-born, solitary or childless, and have it even
less, presumably, if our children or friends are totally bad, or were good but have died. [1099a-1099b, bracketed
comments in original]
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