 Grouchy’s strong emphasis on pain and pleasure might suggest that her moral theoretical leanings are towards consequentialism rather than Stoicism. And indeed some of her discussions of what it means to do the right thing seem to be informed by consequentialism. In Letter V, she claims that acts receive reason’s approval depending on the extent to which they benefit humanity. In Letter VIII, she suggests that the value of the law can be measured in part in terms of the pleasure and pain it produces.