# Fragmenta Moralia 659

Chrysippus, Fragmenta Moralia, Fragment 659. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/chrysippus-2/fragmenta-moralia/659

Seneca de beneficiis IV 27. Timidus dicitur aliquis, quia stultus est: et hoc malos sequitur, quos indiscreta et universa vitia circumstant; dicitur timidus proprie natura etiam ad inanes sonos pavidus. Stultus omnia vitia habet, sed non in omnia natura pronus est: alius in avaritiam, alius in luxuriam, alius in petulantiam inclinatur. Itaque errant illi, qui interrogant Stoicos: quid ergo? Achilles timidus est? － － Non hoc dicimus, sic omnia vitia esse in omnibns, quomodo in quibusdam singula eminent, sed malum ac stultum nullo vitio vacare. ne audacem quidem timoris absolvimus, ne prodigum quidem avaritia liberamus.

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Chrysippus, Fragmenta Moralia, ed. Hans Friedrich August von Arnim. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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