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Chrysippus
- 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
- Thought is the fountain of speech
- There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood
- Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything
- If I knew that it was fated for me to be sick, I would even wish for it; for the foot also, if it had intelligence, would volunteer to get muddy
- If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy
- I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things
- The anchovy which is found in the sea at Athens, men despise on account of its abundance and say that it is a poor man’s fish; but in other cities, they prize it above everything, even where it is far inferior to the Attic anchovy
- Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one’s experience of the actual course of nature