Whereby it is manifest that goodness never lacks its reward, nor crime its punishment.

For, verily, in all manner of transactions that for the sake of which the particular action is done may justly be accounted the reward of that action, even as the wreath for the sake of which the race is run is the reward offered for running.

Now, we have shown happiness to be that very good for the sake of which all things are done.

Absolute good, then, is offered as the common prize, as it were, of all human actions.

But, truly, this is a reward from which it is impossible to separate the good man, for one who is without good cannot properly be called good at all; wherefore righteous dealing never misses its reward.