When we find ourselves obliged to go so far, namely, to the connection with an intelligible world, to find the possibility of the summum bonum, which reason points out to all rational beings as the goal of all their moral wishes, it must seem strange that, nevertheless, the philosophers both of ancient and modern times have been able to find happiness in accurate proportion to virtue even in this life (in the sensible world), or have persuaded themselves that they were conscious thereof.
Behartuta baldin bagaude ongi gorenaren ahalgarritasuna, zerizan arrazoidun guztiei arrazoimenak euren desira moral ororen helburu gisa ezartzen dien hori, hain urrun bilatzera, hots, adimenduzko mundu batekiko elkarloturan, orduan bitxia izan behar zaigu antzinako eta egungo filosofoek zoriona eta bertutea oso proportzio egokian lotuta aurkitu izana dagoeneko bizitza honetan (sentsuen munduan), edo euren buruak limurtu izatea horretaz jabetu izateaz.