Note (return) — Chapter XIII
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If reason be the great organizing and controlling law of the universe, then, to live conformable to reason is the great practical law of life. Accordingly, the fundamental ethical maxim of the Stoics is, "Live conformably with nature--that is, with reason, or the will of the universal governor and manager of all things." 841 Thus the chief good (εὐδαιµονία) is the conformity of man's actions to reason--that is, to the will of God, "for nothing is well done without a reference to God." 842