Zeno Of Citium Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. Happiness is a good flow of life,

Zeno Of Citium

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

Zeno Of Citium

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

Zeno Of Citium

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

Zeno Of Citium

#7. All the good are friends of one another.

Zeno Of Citium

#8. 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.

Zeno Of Citium

#9. If being is many, it must be both like and unlike, and this is impossible, for neither can the like be unlike, nor the unlike like

Zeno Of Citium

#10. Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

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#11. Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

Zeno Of Citium

#12. The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature.

Zeno Of Citium

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.

Zeno Of Citium