Once more, in the first book of his treatise on the gods, he quotes the Stoic Chrysippus as teaching that the eternal Power, which is as it were a guide in the duties of life, is Jupiter himself.

Such a person, says one, is already able to read Chrysippus by himself.

Chrysippus of course was speaking of the Greek Zeus.]

When, then, any man says to me, Read Chrysippus to me, I rather blush, when I cannot show my acts like to and consistent with his words.