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Zeno of Citium
Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c.334-262 BC), the Cypriot founder of Stoicism, from whom Seneca dates 'the rigid and manly wisdom of the Stoics'; cited as having owned no slave.
Reading notes
- Consolation to His Mother Helvia §12 Zeno
Founder of the Stoic school; Seneca makes him the origin of Stoic philosophy and notes he kept no slave at all.
- On Benefits §4.39.1 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC), founder of the Stoic school; the anecdote of his persisting in a promised loan tests the Stoic rule on keeping promises.
- On Benefits §7.8.2 Zeno
Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism; with Socrates and Chrysippus, a model of the wise man's true wealth.
- On the Shortness of Life §14.5 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC), founder of Stoicism.
- On Anger §1.16 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC), founder of Stoicism; cited for the image that in the sage, even a healed wound leaves a scar — a faint trace of passion without the passion itself.
- On Leisure §1.4 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC), founder of Stoicism, who taught in the Stoa Poikile (Painted Porch) at Athens; here the figurehead of the Stoic insistence on public service.
- On Tranquility of Mind §1.10 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334--262 BC), founder of the Stoic school. Named with Cleanthes and Chrysippus as Stoic heads who counseled public service yet held no office themselves.
- On Tranquility of Mind §14.3 Zeno
Zeno of Citium, who on hearing his goods were lost at sea said fortune bade him 'philosophize more lightly equipped.'
- On the Happy Life §18.1 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334-262 BC), founder of the Stoic school at Athens.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §1.6.6 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC), founder of Stoicism, which took its name from the Stoa Poikile (the 'Painted Porch') at Athens where he taught.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §4.33.7 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC), founder of the Stoic school at Athens; with Cleanthes one of the school's revered early heads, whose sayings the rote-learner endlessly repeats instead of thinking for himself.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §104.21 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC), the founder of the Stoic school.
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §108.38 Zeno
Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC), founder of the Stoic school.