Zeno of Citium

On a shirt

Every line we've sourced

1. Two ears, one mouth. Listen double.

   "This is the reason why we have two ears and only one mouth, that we may hear more and speak less"

   Diogenes Laertius, Lives 7, C. D. Yonge, 1853

2. Better to trip with your feet than with your tongue.

   "it was better to trip with the feet than with the tongue"

   Diogenes Laertius, Lives 7, C. D. Yonge, 1853

3. Good is built little by little, but it's no little thing.

   "goodness was attained by little and little, but was not itself a small thing"

   Diogenes Laertius, Lives 7, C. D. Yonge, 1853

4. Shipwrecked? Best voyage I ever made.

   "νῦν εὐπλόηκα, ὅτε νεναυάγηκα."

   Diogenes Laertius 7.4, our translation from the Greek

5. We're short of nothing so much as time.

   "μηδενός θʼ ἡμᾶς οὕτως εἶναι ἐνδεεῖς ὡς χρόνου."

   Diogenes Laertius 7.23, our translation from the Greek

6. Fated to steal? Then fated to be whipped.

   "τοῦ δʼ εἰπόντος, εἵμαρτό μοι κλέψαι, ἔφη, καὶ δαρῆναι."

   Diogenes Laertius 7.23, our translation from the Greek

7. Tell the king one man here knew how to keep quiet.

   "ἀπαγγεῖλαι πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα ὅτι παρῆν τις σιωπᾶν ἐπιστάμενος"

   Diogenes Laertius 7.24, our translation from the Greek

8. Beauty is the flower of self-control.

   "τὸ κάλλος εἶπε τῆς σωφροσύνης ἄνθος εἶναι"

   Diogenes Laertius 7.23, our translation from the Greek