Now tell me, is there one way only to philosophy, the one you Stoics follow? I have heard there are many other schools as well. Is that right? HERMOTIMUS Very many—the Peripatetics, Epicureans, those who take Plato as their patron, others also, the devotees of Diogenes and Antisthenes, Pythagoreans, and more besides. LYCINUS True, there are many. Is what they say the same, Hermotimus, or different? HERMOTIMUS Quite different. LYCINUS At all events, one of their systems, I suppose, is true? They can’t all be true if they differ. HERMOTIMUS No, they can’t.