Fragments of the Early Stoics, Volume 3: Chrysippus (Ethics)

§ 2. Dispute against the ends of other philosophers.

20 Cicero, On Ends IV 11, 28. Chrysippus, however, explaining the differences of living creatures, says that some excel in body, others in mind, and some are strong in both. Then he argues about what is proper to establish as the limit for each genus of living creature. When he had placed man in that genus to which he attributed the excellence of the mind, he established the highest good as this, that it should not just excel in mind, but that there should seem to be nothing besides the mind.

21 Cicero, Academic Questions II 45, 138. Chrysippus often testifies that there are only three opinions that can be defended regarding the ends of goods. He cuts away and amputates the multitude: either the honorable is the end, or pleasure, or both. For those who say the highest good is to be free from all annoyance, he thinks they are avoiding the odious name of pleasure, but are lingering in its vicinity. This is also done by those who combine that same thing with the honorable. And it is not much different for those who add the first advantages of nature to the honorable. Thus, he leaves three opinions, which he thinks can be probably defended.

ibid. 46, 140. One pair, therefore, which may fight it out, remains: pleasure with the honorable. Regarding which, there was not, so far as I sense, a great contention for Chrysippus. If you follow the other, many things collapse, and especially...