A Happy life (n.) cannot be more or less happy: it has the perfect and unsurpassable good, and if the life of the gods has nothing greater or better, then there is no higher state to which it could be raised.
A Happy life (n.) is best by its quality, not its magnitude: it is the same whether long or short, spread through many places or confined to one; its excellence is that it is full.
Happy life (n.) is not made happier by being longer; round out your life before death comes and time will mean nothing to you.
Happy life (n.) as Sextius shows it is on high but accessible — grand without making you despair of reaching it.
Happy life (n.) is not that which conforms to pleasure, but that which conforms to Nature.
The Happy life (n.) admits of no degrees: he whom you call less happy is not happy, for the word admits of no diminution.
The Happy life (n.) is a unit; for it is its essence, and not its extent, that establishes such a life on the noblest plane.
The Happy life (n.) cannot be lived more happily without being lived more rightly: virtue cannot be strained tighter, and neither can the life that depends on it.