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Now these things are thought to be appurtenances of Happiness

because men in power spend their leisure herein: yet, it may be,

we cannot argue from the example of such men: because there is

neither Virtue nor Intellect necessarily involved in having

power, and yet these are the only sources of good Workings: nor

does it follow that because these men, never having tasted pure

and generous Pleasure, take refuge in bodily ones, we are

therefore to believe them to be more choice-worthy: for children

too believe that those things are most excellent which are

precious in their eyes.

We may well believe that as children and men have different ideas

as to what is precious so too have the bad and the good:

therefore, as we have many times said, those things are really

precious and pleasant which seem so to the good man: and as to

each individual that Working is most choice-worthy which is in

accordance with his own state to the good man that is so which is

in accordance with Virtue.