The highest good was the virtuous life. Virtue alone is happiness, and vice is unhappiness. Carrying this theory to its extreme, the Stoic said that there could be no gradations between virtue and vice, though of course each has its special manifestations.
maybe i am just entirely too cynical and skeptical, but considering !! that this man was a roman emperor, i find it so hard to believe that he is the absolute saint that this intro just portrayed him as. i hate a lack of nuance.
