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Zeno of Citium

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Zeno of Citium · c. 334–262 BCE

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“A ruined merchant who lost everything in the sea founded the school that teaches you the only cargo worth insuring is your own character.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 31

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“The universe is rational, and so are you — so live in agreement with nature, treat virtue as the only true good, and nothing that happens to you can wreck a life built that way.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 31

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