Frases célebres de Zenón de Citio
Fuente: Lucrecio de Crescenzo. El estoicismo antiguo. Zenon de Citio. http://www.paginasobrefilosofia.com/html/teoriaseticas/eticaestoica/zenon.html Introducción.
“La fortuna quiere que tenga yo mayor libertad para filosofar.”
Sin fuentes
En la obra de Séneca encontramos: «Nuestro Zenón al serle notificado un naufragio en el cual se habían hundido todos sus bienes, exclamó lo anterior».
Zenón de Citio: Frases en inglés
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, ii. 8.
“Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.”
As quoted in Deipnosophists by Athenaeus, xiii. 561c.
“We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.”
As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, vii. 23.
Variant translation: The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives of Eminent Philosophers: 'Zeno', 7.87.
The "end" here means “the goal of life.”
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, ii. 8.; iii. 9.
“A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.”
As quoted in Tusculanae Quaestiones by Cicero, iv. 6.
“No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.”
As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca the Younger
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