Frases de Zenón de Citio

„La fortuna quiere que tenga yo mayor libertad para filosofar.“

—  Zenón de Citio

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».

„Recordad que la naturaleza nos ha dado dos oídos y una boca para enseñarnos que vale más oír que hablar.“

—  Zenón de Citio

Fuente: Lucrecio de Crescenzo. El estoicismo antiguo. Zenon de Citio. http://www.paginasobrefilosofia.com/html/teoriaseticas/eticaestoica/zenon.html Introducción.

„El pensamiento debe ser más fuerte que la materia, y la voluntad más poderosa que el sufrimiento físico o moral.“

—  Zenón de Citio

Sin fuentes

„El amor es un Dios que coopera para garantizar la seguridad de la ciudad.“

—  Zenón de Citio

„Ninguna pérdida debe sernos más sensible que la del tiempo, puesto que es irreparable.“

—  Zenón de Citio

Sin fuentes

„Happiness is a good flow of life.“

—  Zeno of Citium

As quoted by Stobaeus, ii. 77.

„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.

„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.

„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.

„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.”

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

—  Zeno of Citium

As quoted in Deipnosophists by Athenaeus, xiii. 561c.

„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

„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.

„All the good are friends of one another.“

—  Zeno of Citium

As quoted in Stromata, v. 14. by Clement of Alexandria