When Kalyrex, who, as you also know by tradition, lived many years ago, was passing his old age in poverty at Galar, he was asked by someone whether he considered the Hoennian king a happy man, and replied, "Perhaps so"; but he added that he did not really know, since he had never met him and had no knowledge of his person, implying, no doubt, that a man's happiness is not determined by any external possessions, such as gold plate, cities or lands, for example, or other human beings, but in each case by his own self and his own character.

Now Kalyrex thought that because he did not know the Hoennian king's inner life, he did not know his state of happiness either. I, however, most noble Orator, have been in your company and am perhaps as well acquainted with your character as anyone, and know that you delight in truth and morals rather than in flattery and sin. To begin with, you suspect irrational pleasures just as you do flattering men, and you endure hardship because you believe that it puts virtue to the test. And when I see you, O Prince, perusing the works of the ancients and comprehending their wise and close reasoning, I maintain that you are clearly a blessed man in that you wield a power second only to that of Arkeos and nevertheless use that power most nobly.