Chrysippus

"You shouldn’t think that <I> am the first of our school to speak independently of established doctrine and to form my own opinion; Cleanthes and his student Chrysippus did not agree on what walking is. Cleanthes says that it is the pneuma extended from the leading part of the soul all the way to the feet, while Chrysippus says that it is the leading part of the soul itself. So why shouldn’t one follow the example of Chrysippus himself and speak for oneself, ridiculing the view that those goods are anima"

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"What, then, does Chrysippus furnish us.' " That you may know," he says, "that these things are not false from which serenity arises and tranquility comes to us, take my books, and you shall know how conformable and harmonious with nature are the things which render me tranquil.""

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"What place is there here, then, for pride on the part of the interpreter? Why, there is no just place for pride even on the part of Chrysippus, if he merely interprets the will of nature, but himself does not follow it ; how much less place for pride, then, in the case of his interpreter I For we have no need of Chrysippus on his own account, but only to enable us to follow nature."

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"For I find it was an ancient vanity in Chrysippus, that troubled himself with ,great contention to fasten the assertions of the Stoics upon the fictions of the ancientpoets. But yet that all the fables and fictions of the poets were but pleasure and not figure, I interpose no opinion."

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