Full Idea
If happiness is not a divine gift, it will be something widely shared; for it can attach, through some form of study or application, to anyone who is not handicapped by some incapacity for goodness.
Gist of Idea
If happiness can be achieved by study and effort, then it is open to anyone who is not corrupt
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1099b17)
Book Reference
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.80
A Reaction
This is a non-elitist view, even though he is saying that study and effort are needed. The explanation of this is that happiness is not achieved through wisdom, but through practical reason (phronesis), which does not require advanced education.