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TIL Stoicism had a profound impact on Christianity, with some of the central concepts of Stoicism still being used in religious texts today, such as "virtue", "Spirit" and "conscience". Stoicism also invented the idea that sex is just within marriage, for unitive and procreative purposes only.

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