قيل لزينون "أي الملوك أفضل: ملك اليونانيين أم الفرس؟" قال: "من ملك شهوته وغضبه

“Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word…”

“Confine yourself to the present.”

“Τοῦτο ἔχει ἡ τελειότης τοῦ ἤθους, τὸ πᾶσαν ἡμέραν ὡς τελευταίαν διεξάγειν καὶ μ…”

“The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in…”