Zeno of Elea

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The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.
- Zeno of Elea
Collection: Success
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By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.
- Zeno of Elea
Collection: Men
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The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others.
- Zeno of Elea
Collection: Rain
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Beauty is the flower of chastity.
- Zeno of Elea
Collection: Beauty
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...but what has been said once can always be repeated.
- Zeno of Elea
Collection: Teaching
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My writing is an answer to the partisans of the many and it returns their attack with interest, with a view to showing that the hypothesis of the many, if examined sufficiently in detail, leads to even more ridiculous results than the hypothesis of the One.
- Zeno of Elea
Collection: Writing
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The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.
- Zeno of Elea
Collection: Science