Chrysippus
Chrysippus (c. 279 – c. 206 BCE) was a Greek philosopher, and head of the Stoic school in Athens, from about 230 BCE.
Quotes
[edit]- Living virtuously is equivalent to living in accordance with experience of the actual course of nature.
- In Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 87 (tr. Robert Drew Hicks, 1925)
- The wise man is in want of nothing, and yet needs many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by the fool, for he does not understand how to use anything, but he is in want of everything.
- In Seneca, Moral Epistles, iii. 10 (tr. Richard Mott Gummere, 1918)
- He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another.
- In Cicero, De Officiis, iii. 10 (tr. Andrew P. Peabody, 1887)
- If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy
- In Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 182 (tr. Robert Drew Hicks, 1925)
- If I knew that it was fated for me to be sick, I would even move toward it; for the foot also, if it had intelligence, would move to go into the mud.
- In Epictetus, Discourses, ii. 6. 10 (tr. George Long, 1952)
- Ipsumque mundum deum dicit esse et eius animi fusionem universam.
- The universe itself is God, or an emanation of the divine mind.
- In Cicero, De Natura Deorum, i. 15 (tr. Horace C. P. McGregor, 1972)
- We should infer in the case of a beautiful dwelling-place that it was built for its owners and not for mice; we ought, therefore, in the same way to regard the universe as the dwelling-place of the gods.
- In Cicero, De Natura Deorum, iii. 10 (tr. Francis Brooks, 1896)
