Zeno of Sidon

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  • c. 150–c. 75 BC. Born in Sidon (Phoenicia), head of the school in Athens. Wrote in Greek. Teacher of Philodemus of Gadara and, by some ancient testimony, heard as a lecturer by the young Cicero in Athens; represents the school's continued vitality in the generation just before the great wave of Roman engagement with Epicureanism.

    c. 150–c. 75 BC. Born in Sidon (Phoenicia), head of the school in Athens. Wrote in Greek. Teacher of Philodemus of Gadara and, by some ancient testimony, heard as a lecturer by the young Cicero in Athens; represents the school's continued vitality in the generation just before the great wave of Roman engagement with Epicureanism.

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    Quote from Zeno of Sidon, by way of Cicero, Tusculan Disputations III.17.38 (tr. King)

    Blessed is he who has the enjoyment of present pleasure and the assurance that he would have enjoyment either throughout life or for a great part of life without the intervention of pain, or should pain come, that it would be short-lived if extreme, but if prolonged it would still allow more that was pleasant than evil.

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