Rather, he included the least self interest performance of the good among the ways of savori the most intimate joy, and whatever tempering and restraining of the inclinations may be demanded by the strictest moral philosopher belonged likewise to his scheme of gratificati (by which he meant a constantly cheerful heart); in this he deviated from the Stoics primarily only in positing the motive in this gratification, which the Stoics refused to do and rightly so.