Full Idea
What am I to take as the principle of appropriate action and raw material for virtue if I give up nature and what is according to nature?
Gist of Idea
Only nature is available to guide action and virtue
Source
Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]), quoted by Plutarch - On Common Conceptions 1069e
Book Reference
'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.10
A Reaction
'Nature' is awfully vague as a guideline, even when we are told nature is rational. I can only make sense of it as 'human nature', which is more Aristotelian than stoic. 'Go with the flow' and 'lay the cards you are dealt' might capture it.