Full Idea
Chrysippus says (in On the Honourable) that justice is natural and not conventional, as are the law and right reason.
Gist of Idea
Justice, the law, and right reason are natural and not conventional
Source
report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.128
Book Reference
'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.123
A Reaction
How does he explain variations in the law between different states? Presumably some of them have got it wrong. What is the criterion for deciding which laws are natural?