some identify happiness with good fortune, though others identify it with virtue. For this reason also the question is asked, whether happiness is to be acquired by learning or by habituation or some other sort of [10] training, or comes in virtue of some divine providence or again by chance. Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be