20 Quotes by Chrysippus

Thought is the fountain of speech.

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.

The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.

Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one’s experience of the actual course of nature.

There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.

If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.

Death is the separation of soul from body.

I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.