The knowledge and contemplation of nature is somehow defective and incomplete unless action follows.
Etenim cognitio contemplatioque naturae manca quodam modo atque inchoata sit, si nulla actio rerum consequatur.

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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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