Quotes by Chrysippus - Page 1

Thought is the fountain of speech.
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Fountain
Speech
Thought Provoking
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Death is the separation of soul from body.
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Separation
Death Soul Body
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The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul.
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Soul
Universal
Universe
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If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
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Multitudes
Philosophy
Should
Studied
Followed
Multitude
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Every animal is related to its own constitution and the consciousness of it.
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Animal
Consciousness
Related
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Vice cannot be removed completely, nor is it right that it should be removed.
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Vice
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The soul is joined to and is separated from the body. Therefore, the soul is corporeal.
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Separated
Therefore
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I myself think that the wise man meddles little or not at all in affairs and does his own things.
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Wise
Little
Affairs
Does
Wise Man
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Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
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Courses
Equal
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There could be no justice, unless there were also injustice; no courage, unless there were cowardice; no truth, unless there were falsehood.
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Cowardice
Injustice
Justice
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There is a certain head, and that head you have not. Now this being so, there is a head which you have not; therefore, you are without a head.
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Head
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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.
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Eternal
Fate
Rolling
Series
Unchangeable
Unraveling
Through
Cause
Chain
Itself
Composed
Effect
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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.
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Wise
Hands
Needs
People
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If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.
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Fate
Forces
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Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.
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Corresponding
Dominant
Fate
Linked
Nevertheless
Although
Forced
Manner
Minds
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When through the power of sight we see white, that which comes about in the soul through the act of seeing is a modification. And on the basis of this modification, we are able to say that the white which is affecting us exists.
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Seeing
Sight
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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.
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Abundance
Athens
Cities
Despise
Prize
Sea
Above
Account
Attic
Fish
Inferior
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Of causes, some are complete and primary, others auxiliary and proximate. Hence, when we say that all things come about through fate by antecedent causes, we do not mean this to be understood as 'by complete and primary causes,' but 'by auxiliary and proximate causes.'
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All Things
Causes
Fate
Hence
Primary
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If something were brought about without an antecedent cause, it would be untrue that all things come about through fate. But if it is plausible that all events have an antecedent cause, what ground can be offered for not conceding that all things come about through fate?
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All Things
Fate
Plausible
Untrue
Brought
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Ground
Offered
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Vice, by comparison with terrible accidents, has its own peculiar explanation. For, in a way, it does occur in accordance with the rationale of nature, and its occurrence is not, so to speak, useless in relation to the whole world. For otherwise, the good would not exist, either.
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Accidents
Comparison
Explanation
Peculiar
Rationale
Relation
Useless
Occur
Vice
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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.
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Running
Benefits
Race
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