To live in accordance with nature is to live in accordance with virtue.
-- Zeno the Stoic (c.335-c.263 BCE) quoted in More, Hellenistic Philosophies
-- Zeno the Stoic (c.335-c.263 BCE) quoted in More, Hellenistic Philosophies
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- When people's ill, they come to I,
I Physics, bleeds,
and sweats 'em; Sometimes they live, sometimes they... - One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced
by fear or hope,
or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that... - When Zeno was asked what a friend was, he replied, "Another I."
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Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno,... - legal: adj. Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the
relevant rules',
esp. in connection with some set of constraints ... - legal adj.
Loosely used to mean `in accordance with all the
relevant rules',
esp. in connection with some set of constraints ... - Our character (mores) is not so much the product of race and heredity,
as of circumstances by which nature forms habits,... - I have no humility. It's a virtue,
but I can live with... - Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them,
only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the... - They say that the first inclination which an animal has is to protect itself.
Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Zeno,...
