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“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."”
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- Source:
- Chrysippus. iii.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- d69839adb7210fb9ebe1e0efe7cf274caa7fdecf180c931a7a91bd5e75d3e08c
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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