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We Can Always Be Born Again | The Life of Zeno
The Daily Stoic
The Importance of Honesty
He used to say that even of philosophers, the greater number were in most things on wise. Nothing, he declared, was more unbecoming than arrogance, especially in the young. To a stripling who was talking nonsense his words were: The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less. If you use violence, my body will be with you, but my mind with Stilpo. Apollonius of Tyre tells us how when crates laid hold on him by the cloak to drag him from Stilpo, Zeno said, The right way to seize a philosopher crate is by the ears. Persuade
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