Christian Garve (1742–1798) was a well-respected writer and translator in late eighteenth-century Germany. One of his most influential translations was that of Cicero’s On Duties, to which he appended three volumes of commentary, and which has been suspected to have influenced Kant while he was writing the Groundwork. This chapter contains the first English translation of an extended footnote from Garve’s essay ‘On Patience’, in which he engages with Kant’s moral philosophy and to which Kant responds in the first part of the ‘Theory and Practice’ essay. The focus of the footnote is whether happiness or virtue is the final end of creation, and whether it is possible for human beings to strive to be worthy of happiness without also striving for happiness itself.