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With this, she bent over him to kiss his brow, but he raised himself a little, and said, with a contemptuous smile Apathy--ataraxy--complete indifference--is the highest aim after which the soul of the skeptic strives.— Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
"Apathy -- ataraxy -- complete indifference -- is the highest aim after which the soul of the skeptic strives.— A Thorny Path — Volume 08
‘multiloquy’ (Beaumont, _Psyche_); if ‘dyscolous’ (Foxe), ‘ataraxy’— English Past and Present
Youth all around prancing, vociferating, mocking; callow and alien youth, having to be looked after and studied and taught, as though nothing but it mattered, term after term -- and now, all of a sudden, in mid-term, peace, ataraxy, a profound and leisured stillness.— Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
The first sighs for nothing but repose and liberty; he desires only to live, and to be exempt from labour; nay, the ataraxy of the most confirmed Stoic falls short of his consummate indifference for every other object.— A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind
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