(added & improved)
The end' is intended, [Greek: boulaeton];
the means' are chosen, [Greek: proaireton];
the circumstances' are simply permitted, [Greek: anekton], rightly or wrongly.
The intention' of the end is called by English philosophers the "motive" ;
while the choice of means they call the "intention" an unfortunate terminology.
Observe, both end and means are willed directly, but the circumstances indirectly.”
"As the wax takes all shapes, and yet is wax still at the end; similarly, the soul transported in so many several passions of joy, fear, hope, sorrow, anger, and the rest, has for its general groundwork of all this, Love." Hence, says Carey, Love does not figure in Collins's Ode on the Passions. (though i personally dont believe in love but passion i cant deny).
Happiness must endure to length of days. Happiness is the perfect good of man. But no good is perfect that will not last.
“Happiness is a bringing of the soul to act according to the habit of the best and most perfect virtue, that is, the virtue of the speculative intellect, borne out by easy surroundings, and enduring to length of days—[Greek: energeia psy”
Plato is a thorough Stoic when he says, that every pleasure and pain comes with a nail to pin down the soul to the body and make it corporeal.
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