“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."”

— Diogenes Laërtius

Chrysippus, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 7: The Stoics

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