Thus Zeno refused Antigonus, but sent Persæus, his countryman, and Philonides, a Theban. He would say, that nothing was more unseemly than pride, especially in youth, which was a time of learning. He therefore recommended to young men modesty in three things; in their walking, in their behaviour, and in their apparel: often repeating those verses of Euripides, in honour of Capaneus: "He was not puff'd up with his store, Nor thought himself above the poor." Seeing a man very finely dressed, stepping lightly over a kennel: "That man," saith he, "doth not care for the dirt, because he could not see his face in it." He also taught, that people should not affect delicacy of diet, no, not in their sickness. To one that smelt with unguents; "Who is it," saith he, "that smells so effeminately?" Seeing a friend of his taken too much up with the business of his land; "Unless thou lose thy land," saith he, "thy land will lose thee." Being demanded, whether a man that doth wrong may conceal it from God: "No," saith he, "nor yet he who thinks it;" which testifies to the omnipresence of God. Being asked, who was his best friend, he answered: "My other self;" intimating the divine part that was in him. He would say, the end of man was not to live, eat, and drink; but to use his life so as to obtain a happy life hereafter. He was so humble that he conversed with mean and ragged persons: whence Timon thus: "And for companions, gets of servants store, Of all men the most empty and most poor." He was patient, and frugal in his household expenses; Laertius saith, he had but one servant; Seneca avers he had none. He was mean in his clothes: in his diet, by Philemon thus described: "He water drinks, then broth and herbs doth eat; Teaching his scholars, almost without meat." His chastity was so eminent, that it became a proverb; "As chaste as Zeno." When the news of his death came to Antigonus, he broke forth into these words, "What an object have I lost!" And being asked, why he admired him so much? "Because," saith he, "though I bestowed many great things upon him, he was never therewith exalted nor dejected." The Athenians, after his death, by a public decree, erected a statue to his memorial; it runs thus: "Whereas Zeno, the son of Mnaseas, a Cittian, has professed philosophy about fifty-eight years in this city, and in all things performed the office of a good man, encouraging those young men who applied themselves to him, to the love of virtue and temperance, leading himself a life suitable to the doctrine which he professed; a pattern to the best to imitate: the people have thought fit to do honour to Zeno, and to crown him with a crown of gold, according to law, in regard of his virtue and temperance, and to build a tomb for him, publicly, in the Ceramick, &c." These two were his epitaphs, one by Antipater: