Letters 92.4

What more can one desire who possesses all honourable things? For if dishonourable things can contribute to the best estate, then there will be the possibility of a happy life under conditions which do not include an honourable life. And what is more base or foolish than to connect the good of a rational soul with things irrational?

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius 92.4, translated by Richard Mott Gummere