All this will make the mind seem even more miserable, I think, because it's madness to choose evil over good. No insane person can be happy. And no one can be sane if they think harmful things are the highest good and try to get them. The happy person is someone who can judge everything correctly. They're satisfied with whatever situation they're in right now and at peace with their life conditions. That person is happy whose reason approves of their entire way of living.
all this will make it appear, in my opinion, yet more wretched, because it is insanity to choose evil instead of good: now no insane person can be happy, and no one can be sane if he regards what is injurious as the highest good and strives to obtain it. The happy man, therefore, is he who can make a right judgment in all things: he is happy who in his present circumstances, whatever they may be, is satisfied and on friendly terms with the conditions of his life. That man is happy, whose reason recommends to him the whole posture of his affairs.