Only that which is to be sought for its own sake is truly moral (honestum).
Honestum quidem id solum esse quod expetendum sua sponte sit.
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Panaetius
Greek Stoic (c. 185-109 BC), last head of the Athenian Stoa. He reformed strict early Stoicism into a liveable ethics. His On Duties survives via Cicero and shaped Western moral and political thought for two millennia.
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