This work seeks to approach the subject of ethics, present in the writings of the “first” Wittgenstein, in a non-exhaustive way. Connecting the Tractatus Logico-philosophicus (1921) with the Conference on Ethics (1964), we tried to classify the ethical “propositions”, in contrast with the meaningful propositions, in order to approach the unspeakability of ethics, as well as to discuss its activity. It was from a brief encounter with Stoicism that the relation between volition and world gained more expressive contours, as well as the relation between the happy life as tranquility of the soul and the unhappy life as the "problematic" that has to disappear. It is possible to understand the Tractatus as an ethical act in view of a happy life, t...