Synopsis 1. Well-being is of the present.\\ 2. The propensity for life and actualization always concerns the present.\\ 3. The measure of well-being is not influenced by the prolongation of contemplation,\\ 4. nor of pleasure,\\ 5. nor of itself.\\ 6. Ill-being may increase in time, but not so well-being.\\ 7. Well-being transcends time.\\ 8-9. Memory has no effect on it.\\ 10. Virtuous actions are the result, not the cause, of well-being.