Peripatetics

Thence arose the opinion of the old Academics and the Peripatetics, that they should call the end of goods 'to live according to nature' — that is, with virtue applied, to enjoy the things first given by nature.

the others say that they grant the most, and by far the most, to honourableness, but that there are yet certain goods both in the body and outside it.

But indeed those things which the Peripatetics, which the Stoics say are always on your lips, in the courts, in the senate — duty, fairness, dignity, good faith, the right, the honourable, things worthy of empire, worthy of the Roman people, all dangers for the commonwealth, to die for one's country:

And so the practice of the Peripatetics and the Academy, of disputing on every matter for both sides, has always pleased me — not only for this reason, that in no other way can what is likely to the truth in any matter be discovered, but also because it is the greatest exercise in speaking.

there are those who say it is no great evil, as the Peripatetics;

\"To the Peripatetics the Stoics make answer;

Further, according to those from the Stoa, marriage and child-rearing are indifferent, but according to those from the Peripatos a good.

And all the things the Peripatetics wish to be threefold goods, he uses, even the body too, as a man setting out on a far journey uses inns and the dwellings by the road—taking care of and adorning the place where he lodges, but leaving the dwelling and the possession, like its use, without passionate attachment, readily following the one who leads him away from life, in no way turning back for an …

And to Aristobulus, who lived under Ptolemy Philometor, whom the writer of the epitome of the books of the Maccabees mentions, there belong sufficient books, in which he shows that the Peripatetic philosophy depends upon the law according to Moses and upon the other prophets.

From whose number both Plato and Socrates must be removed — the one because he left behind a most perfect school, the Peripatetics and the Academics, differing in name but agreeing in substance, from whom the Stoics themselves dissented in words rather than in opinions;

For since there is a field in which discourse might exult, why do we drive it into such straits and into the brambles of the Stoics?

'Come — should I withstand the Peripatetics, who say that they have a kinship with orators, who say that illustrious men trained by them have often governed the commonwealth;

"Therefore poverty too will make the wise man worse, and pain, and whatever else of the kind there is.

To this chain certain Peripatetics reply in this way, so as to interpret "unperturbed," "steadfast," and "without sorrow" thus:

But how little do we grant the wise man, if he is braver than the feeblest, more cheerful than the most despondent, more moderate than the most unbridled, greater than the meanest?

for there was no difference between the Peripatetics and that Old Academy.

and these are those three kinds which most people think the Peripatetics speak of.

For when Plato had left his sister's son Speusippus as, so to speak, the heir of his philosophy, but had also left two men of the most outstanding zeal and learning, Xenocrates of Chalcedon and Aristotle of Stagira, those who were with Aristotle were called Peripatetics, because they disputed while walking about in the Lyceum, whereas the others, because by Plato's institution they were accustomed …

"I am surprised that Antiochus, an exceedingly acute man, should have failed to see that there is the widest difference between the Stoics, who distinguish the honourable from the advantageous not in name but in their whole kind, and the Peripatetics, who confound the honourable with the advantageous, so that they differ only in magnitude and as it were in degree, not in kind.

Now when, as I was setting out for Cilicia, he had awaited me at Ephesus — being himself on his way back to Rome from a legation — and when Cratippus too had come to the same place from Mytilene to greet and visit me — Cratippus, in my judgment easily the foremost of all the Peripatetics whom I have ever heard — it was with the greatest pleasure that I both saw Nigidius and made the acquaintance of Cratippus.

The Peripatetics too, who set the bounds of human happiness far and wide, say that minor benefits will come to the wicked;

And I do not mean only those who fashion it out of manifest bodily things — as Hipparchus and Heraclitus out of fire, as Hippo and Thales out of water, as Empedocles and Critias out of blood, as Epicurus out of atoms (if atoms too compose corporealities by their conjunction), as Critolaus and his Peripatetics out of some fifth substance I know not what (if that too is a body, since it includes bod …