(The end is) life in agreement with nature

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As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives of Eminent Philosophers: 'Zeno', 7.87.: “This is why Zeno was the first (in his treatise On the Nature of Man) to designate as the end ‘life in agreement with nature’ (or living agreeably to nature)...”

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The "end" here means “the goal of life.”

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