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Zeno of Citium
ZEE-no uhv SI-shee-uhm
noun
the ancient Greek founder of stoic philosophy which holds that virtue is good by definition
1862Marcus AureliusThe Thoughts of the Emperor Marcus AureliusThe doctrines of Zeno and his successors were well suited to the gravity and practical good sense of the Romans; and even in the Republican period we have an example of a man, M. Cato Uticensis, who lived the life of a Stoic and died consistently with the opinions which he professed.1926St. George StockA Guide to StoicismThe life span of Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, was from B.C. 347 to 275.

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