Aetius the Doxographer Quotes

Aetius, sometimes called Aetius the Doxographer, was a Greek philosophical author of the first or second century AD, the compiler of a now-lost handbook of philosophical opinions, the Placita Philosophorum, that lay behind the surviving compilations of Pseudo-Plutarch and Stobaeus. His patient cataloging of the disagreements of Greek philosophers on every major topic of physics, theology, ethics, and psychology preserved much of what we now know about the schools of Hellenistic and earlier Greek philosophy, and made him one of the principal indirect sources for the doxographical tradition in late antiquity and after. The quotes below are attributed to Aetius the Doxographer, organized by topic.