No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.

Zeno of Citium

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Zeno of Citium

Zeno of Citium (c. 334-262 BC), a Phoenician who lost everything in a shipwreck, founded Stoicism in Athens. His doctrine that virtue alone is the good shaped Western ethics from Rome to modern resilience science.

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