Diogenes Laërtius - The Stoics

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One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.

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One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it."

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The Stoics also teach that God is unity, and that he is called Mind and Fate and Jupiter, and by many other names besides.

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They also say that God is an animal immortal, rational, perfect, and intellectual in his happiness, unsusceptible of any kind of evil, having a foreknowledge of the universe and of all that is in the universe; however, that he has not the figure of a man; and that he is the creator of the universe, and as it were the Father of all things in common, and that a portion of him pervades everything.

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Apollodorus says, "If any one were to take away from the books of Chrysippus all the passages which he quotes from other authors, his paper would be left empty."

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But Chrysippus, Posidonius, Zeno, and Boëthus say, that all things are produced by fate. And fate is a connected cause of existing things, or the reason according to which the world is regulated.

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They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.

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When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."

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