Seneca · On the true good as attained by reason

Letters 124.15

That which cannot contain the happy life cannot contain that which produces the happy life; and the happy life is produced by Goods alone. In dumb animals there is not a trace of the happy life, nor of the means whereby the happy life is produced; in dumb animals the Good does not exist.

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 124.15, translated by Richard Mott Gummere