Frases de Zenón de Citio
Zenón de Citio
Fecha de nacimiento: 334 a.C.
Fecha de muerte: 263 a.C.
Zenón de Citio , nació en Citio, Chipre, en aquel tiempo colonia griega. Fue un filósofo, fundador de la escuela filosófica estoica, que inició hacia el 300 a.C. en Atenas, donde desarrolló su vida intelectual. Su base fue la moral de los filósofos cínicos. Ponía énfasis en el bien racional que se obtenía a través de una vida virtuosa, es decir, acorde a la naturaleza. Su filosofía fue muy exitosa ya desde su época y floreció aún más durante el helenismo y durante el periodo imperial de Roma; de los siglos II a.C. al II d.C.
Frases Zenón de Citio
„Happiness is a good flow of life.“
— Zeno of Citium
As quoted by Stobaeus, ii. 77.
„Love is a God, who cooperates in securing the safety of the city.“
— Zeno of Citium
As quoted in Deipnosophists by Athenaeus, xiii. 561c.
„We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.“
— Zeno of Citium
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.
„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
As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in Lives of Eminent Philosophers: 'Zeno', 7.87.
The "end" here means “the goal of life.”
„A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature.“
— Zeno of Citium
As quoted in Tusculanae Quaestiones by Cicero, iv. 6.
„If melodiously piping flutes sprang from the olive, would you doubt that a knowledge of flute-playing resided in the olive? And what if plane trees bore harps which gave forth rhythmical sounds? Clearly you would think in the same way that the art of music was possessed by plane trees. Why, then, seeing that the universe gives birth to beings that are animate and wise, should it not be considered animate and wise itself?“
— Zeno of Citium
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, ii. 8.
„All the good are friends of one another.“
— Zeno of Citium
As quoted in Stromata, v. 14. by Clement of Alexandria
„No evil is honorable; but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.“
— Zeno of Citium
As quoted in Epistles No. 82, by Seneca the Younger
„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
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, ii. 8.; iii. 9.
