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 man…

- Zeno Of Elea

The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowe…

- Zeno Of Elea

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…

- Zeno Of Elea

Beauty is the flower of chastity.

- Zeno Of Elea

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 a…

- Zeno Of Elea

...but what has been said once can always be repeated.

- Zeno Of Elea

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

- Zeno Of Elea

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

- Zeno Of Elea