"Zeno" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Unwise, unjust, unmerciful Ukraine! Vanish vile vengeance, vanish victory vain! Why wish we warfare? wherefore welcome won Xerxes, Xantippus, Xavier, Xenophon? Yield, ye young Yaghier yeomen, yield your yell! Zimmerman's, Zoroaster's, Zeno's zeal Again attract; arts against arms appeal. All, all ambitious aims, avaunt, away! Et caetera, et caetera, ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett
... wise a man not to know how much our well-being depends on the regulation of our minds. The world for which he wished was not, as some people seem to imagine, a world of water- wheels, power-looms, steam-carriages, sensualists, and knaves. He would have been as ready as Zeno himself to maintain that no bodily comforts which could be devised by the skill and labour of a hundred generations would give happiness to a man whose mind was under the tyranny of licentious appetite, of envy, ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... the natural result of efforts to reach that which is not the condition of humanity? Is not modern stoicism, built though it be on Christianity, as great an outrage on human nature as was the stoicism of the ancients? The philosophy of Zeno was built on true laws, but on true laws misunderstood and therefore misapplied. It is the same with our Stoics here, who would teach us that wealth and worldly comfort and happiness on earth are not worth the ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... de Conti was a second Zeno as much as he was a Prince of the blood. That is his character with regard to the public; and as to his private capacity, wickedness had the same effect on him as weakness had on M. d'Elbeuf, and drowned his other qualities, which were all mean and ...
— The Memoirs of Cardinal de Retz, Complete • Jean Francois Paul de Gondi, Cardinal de Retz
... und Bessers geben? Die Weisheit nur, den ganzen Wert davon Zu fhlen, immer ihn zu fhlen, Und, seines Glckes froh, kein andres zu erzielen; 1420 Auch diese gab sie ihm. Sein Mentor war Kein Cyniker mit ungekmmtem Haar, Kein runzlichter Cleanth,[2] der, wenn die Flasche blinkt, Wie Zeno spricht und wie Silenus trinkt; Die Liebe war's—wer lehrt so gut wie sie? 1425 Auch lernt' er gern, und schnell, und sonder Mh, Die reizende Philosophie, Die, was Natur und Schicksal uns gewhrt, Vergngt geniesst, und gern ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas |
