That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

There is a written and an unwritten law. The one by which we regulate our constitutions in our cities is the written law; that which arises from customs is the unwritten law.

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

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

Pittacus said that half was more than the whole.

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

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.