And it is a life such as the best which we enjoy, and enjoy for but a short time (for it is ever in this state, which we cannot be), since its actuality is also pleasure. (And for this reason are waking, perception, and thinking most pleasant, and hopes and memories are so on account of these.) And thinking in itself deals with that which is best in itself, and that which is thinking in the fullest sense with that which is best in the fullest sense. And thought thinks on itself because it shares the nature of the object of thought;
Eta printzipio horren egitekoa guk denboraldi labur batean egin 15) dezakegun onena bezalakoa da, hura beti baitago berdin (eta hau, guretzat, ezinezkoa da), haren egintza plazerra delako (horregatik dira hain atsegingarriak esna egotea, sentsazioa eta ulertzea, eta hauei jarraiki, itxaropenak eta oroitzapenak). Bestalde, berezko ulertzea berezko onenaz arduratzen da, eta Ulertze Gorena, onenetan onenaz. Eta adimenak ulergarri dena bereganatuz ulertzen du bere burua, 20) bereganatuz eta ulertuz suertatzen baita ulergarri;