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We Can Always Be Born Again | The Life of Zeno
The Daily Stoic
Zeno's Discourse on Sophocles
Someone said that he did not in general agree with Antisthenes, where upon Zeno produced that author's essay on Sophocles and asked him if he thought it had any excellence. Then are you not ashamed, quote he, to pick out and mention anything wrong said by Antistheners while you suppress his good things without giving them a thought? Someone having said that he thought the chain arguments of the philosophers seemed brief and curt, Zeno replied, you are quite right. Indeed, the very syllables ought, if possible, to be clipped. Telling periods, he said, unlike the works of good craftsmen, should need no pause for the contemplation of their
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