Stoics
[stəʊɪks]
Examples
- The Stoics and Epicureans, so far apart at first sight, were very similar in their ultimate aim. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Watsons, who were very sick too, and on whom the stewardess attended with shameless partiality, were stoics compared with her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Both, indeed, gave themselves to some science--the Epicureans to physics, the Stoics to logic and rhetoric--but only as a means to an end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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