The objectors perhaps may doubt whether human beings, if taught to consider happiness as the end of life, would be satisfied with such a moderate share of it.

反对者们或许会怀疑，倘若人们被教导应该把幸福看作生活的目的，那么他们是否还会满足于这样一种平淡的生活呢？

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So you constantly end up feeling disappointed because you're not as happy or successful as you think you should be, " says Ariel Gore, author of Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness.

所以，因为你并不像你自己认为的那样快乐或成功从而不断的感到沮丧。” —艾利尔-戈尔，《蓝色知更鸟：女人和新幸福心理学》的作者。

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I will prove that the concept of Aristotle's happiness is a self-limited final end, which guides and regulates people's practices and actions as the highest good.

我将证明亚里士多德的幸福概念是一个自我限制的终极目的，它作为最高善规整和指导着人们的行为和实践。

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Why should we have happiness as our highest end, as our chief concern, as that which determines the motion of our life?

为什么把快乐作为最终目标，作为主要担心，为什么由它来决定生命活动？

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Here the irony that lies under all human aspiration shows itself: the quest for happiness, as always, brings only unhappiness in the end.

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