Stoic Virtues Quotes

“it will have seemed that Socrates’ decision to stay and die was to a large extent guided by the revelation that he was bound in any case to die on that day—a divine indication that it was morally preferable for him to do so willingly.”
― Christoph Jedan, Stoic Virtues: Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics

“they are invited to understand the rationale of the divine administration of the world, visible in the whole world process, and thereby to imitate the divine principle. The identification of the world and of God in this argument shows that Stoic ethics is a fundamentally theological theory.”
― Christoph Jedan, Stoic Virtues: Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics

“The Stoics speak of God as a craftsman of the cosmos, as a father.”
― Christoph Jedan, Stoic Virtues: Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics

“It is well attested that the Stoics called their divine principle Zeus. They admitted other divinities in the Greek pantheon as aspects or manifestations of the single divine principle and identified them as entities in—or rather, elements of—the world.”
― Christoph Jedan, Stoic Virtues: Chrysippus and the Religious Character of Stoic Ethics