Zeno Quotes

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

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

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

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.

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.

Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue

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

Beauty is the flower of chastity.

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

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

...but what has been said once can always be repeated.

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.

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

Happiness is a good flow of life.

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

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.

All the good are friends of one another.

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

To be in the mind and to be known are the same thing: in this domain esse est percipi.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

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

Well-being is attained little by little and is no little thing itself.

It is in virtue that happiness consists for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.

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

Well-being is attained little by little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.

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