Zeno of Citium quotes:

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

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

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

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

  • Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

  • Happiness is a good flow of life,

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

  • 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.

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

  • Man conquers the world by conquering himself.

  • All the good are friends of one another.

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

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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