Better to trip with your feet than with your tongue.
Zeno of Citium, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 7
Better to trip with your feet than with your tongue.
Zeno of Citium, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 7
The source
"Better to trip with your feet than with your tongue." Zeno of Citium said it in Diogenes Laertius, Lives 7. Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
"it was better to trip with the feet than with the tongue"C. D. Yonge, 1853, Diogenes Laertius, Lives 7. Anecdote reported by Diogenes Laertius (3rd century AD).
Who said it
Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC). A shipwrecked merchant who founded Stoicism on a painted porch in Athens.
Questions
- Who said "Better to trip with your feet than with your tongue."?
- Zeno of Citium (c. 334–262 BC). Source: Diogenes Laertius, Lives 7.
- What is the original wording?
- it was better to trip with the feet than with the tongue (C. D. Yonge, 1853). Translated by C. D. Yonge, 1853.
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