Fate is a natural order of all things, following one upon another from eternity, and their intertwining is inviolable.

Chrysippus of Soli

Philosophers

Chrysippus of Soli

Born c. 279 BC in Soli, Chrysippus became the Stoic school's third head and systematized its logic, physics, and ethics so thoroughly he earned the title Second Founder of Stoicism. His propositional logic endures.

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Source: De Fato (Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae VII.2, citing Chrysippus)Unverified

Chrysippus of Soli's Other Quotes

The wise man is free from passions, not because he does not feel, but because his judgments are correct.

If Chrysippus had not existed, the Stoa would not have existed.

If one had the logic of Chrysippus, one would not need the gods.

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

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It is not I who conform to the stars; the stars conform to me.

-- Plotinus

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

-- Chrysippus of Soli

Character is destiny.

-- Heraclitus

Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.

-- Democritus

God does not play dice with the universe.

-- Albert Einstein

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

-- Ludwig van Beethoven