Zeno of Citium Quotes

• Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.

  Zeno of Citium

  Hurt, Steel, Littles

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• Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

  Zeno of Citium

  Men, Conquer The World, World

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• All things are parts of one single system, which is called nature; the individual life is good when it is in harmony with nature.

  Zeno of Citium

  Life Is Good, Harmony, Individual

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• The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

  Zeno of Citium

  Funny, Two, Ears

  "The Stoic Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, Klondike Classics, 2017.

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• Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

  Zeno of Citium

  Feet, Tongue

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• No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

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  Death, Evil, Honorable Death

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• Wellbeing is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

  Zeno of Citium

  Happiness, Littles, Little Things

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• Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

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  Fate, Goes On, World

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• Happiness is a good flow of life.

  Zeno of Citium

  Flow

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• A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.

  Zeno of Citium

  Feelings, Mind, Reason

  "Tusculanae Quaestiones". Book by Cicero, IV. 6,

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• No matter whether you claim a slave by purchase or capture, the title is bad. They who claim to own their fellow-men, look down into the pit and forget the justice that should rule the world.

  Zeno of Citium

  Men, Justice, Atheism

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• That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.

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  Exercise, Doe, Reason

  "De Natura Deorum". Book by Cicero, II. 8.; III. 9,

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• The end may be defined as life in accordance with nature or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe.

  Zeno of Citium

  May, Human Nature, Ends

  "Lives of Eminent Philosophers: 'Zeno" by Diogenes Laërtius, 7.87,

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• All the good are friends of one another.

  Zeno of Citium

  "Stromata, vol. 14". Book by Clement of Alexandria, II AD.

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• Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.

  Zeno of Citium

  Love Is, Cities, Safety

  "Deipnosophists" by Athenaeus, xiii. 561c.,

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