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Fragments
by Zeno of Citium
Nothing incorporeal feels with body, nor does
body feel with the incorporeal, but body with body.
Now the soul feels with the body in sickness or
under the knife, and the body feels with the soul
turning red when the soul is ashamed, and pale when
the soul is afraid. Therefore the soul is body.
Death is separation of soul from the body. But
nothing incorporeal is separated from the body, as,
on the other hand, there is no contact between the
incorporeal and the body. But the soul is in
contact with body, and is separated from body.
Therefore the soul is body.
No evil is glorious. But there are cases of a
glorious death. Death therefore is no evil
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Time is the extension of motion.
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The part of the world are sensing. The world
does not lack feeling.
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To live in accordance with nature is to live in
accordance with virtue. In doing so, the wise man
secures a happy and peaceful course to his own
life.
Excerpted from Hellenistic
Philosophies, translated by Paul Elmer
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