If appearances are deceitful, then they do not deserve any confidence when they assert what appears to them to be true.

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.

Socrates said, "Those who want fewest things are nearest to the gods.

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.

Plato affirmed that the soul was immortal and clothed in many bodies successively.

There are many marvellous stories told of Pherecydes. For it is said that he was walking along the seashore at Samos, and that seeing a ship sailing by with a fair wind, he said that it would soon sink; and presently it sank before his eyes. At another time he was drinking some water which had been drawn up out of a well, and he foretold that within three days there would be an earthquake; and there was one.

He used to say that it was better to have one friend of great value than many friends who were good for nothing.