And if this be once admitted, happiness must be compounded of different good things, which alone are honorable; if there is any mixture of things of another sort with these, nothing honorable can proceed from such a composition: now, take away honesty, and how can you imagine anything happy?
For whatever is good is desirable on that account; whatever is desirable must certainly be approved of; whatever you approve of must be looked on as acceptable and welcome.

You must consequently impute dignity to this; and if so, it must necessarily be laudable: therefore, everything that is laudable is good.

Hence it follows that what is honorable is the only good.

And should we not look upon it in this light, there will be a great many things which we must call good.
XVI.

I forbear to mention riches, which, as any one, let him be ever so unworthy, may have them, I do not reckon among goods; for what is good is not attainable by all.