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.