End of Book V
“36. … No matter to what solitudes banished, I have always been a favourite of Fortune. For Fortune’s favourite is the man who awards her good gifts to himself — the good gifts of a good disposition, good implies, and good deeds.
“XXX. Let death surprise rue when it will, and where it will, I may be a happy man, nevertheless.
For he is a happy man, who in his lifetime dealeth unto himself a happy lot and portion. A happy lot and portion is, good inclinations of the soul, good desires, good actions.”