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Stoic

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Stoic
a member of the ancient Greek school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium, the Greek philosopher (?336--?264 bc), holding that virtue and happiness can be attained only by submission to destiny and the natural law

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In the affair of love, which, out of strict conformity with the Stoic philosophy, we shall here treat as a disease, this proneness to relapse is no less conspicuous.
The men, pitching forward insanely, had burst into cheerings, moblike and barbaric, but tuned in strange keys that can arouse the dullard and the stoic.
He had read somewhere that every man was born a Platonist, an Aristotelian, a Stoic, or an Epicurean; and the history of George Henry Lewes (besides telling you that philosophy was all moonshine) was there to show that the thought of each philospher was inseparably connected with the man he was.
 
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