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Lead me, Zeus, and you, Fate, wherever you have assigned me. I shall follow without hesitation; but even if I am disobedient and do not wish to, I shall follow no less surely.

Cleanthes

Cleanthes

Cleanthes

Born: 330 BC

Died: 232 BC (aged 98)

Bio: Cleanthes, of Assos, was a Greek Stoic philosopher and successor to Zeno, as the second head of the Stoic school in Athens. Originally a boxer, he came to Athens where he took up philosophy, listening to Zeno's lectures.

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