stoics

Scorn of theories is one of their chief race-characteristics, and that is why they end in becoming stoics -- stoics, that is, as the beasts are, who suffer without knowing why.

Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia Norman Douglas 1910

Foley's writing is energetic, witty and erudite, peppered with lively quotes from the great philosophers, especially stoics and existentialists, and engages with the work of modern psychologists as well.

Readers recommend their favourite books of 2010 2011

Men's tennis has had kings who might be described as princes, stoics, tyrants, even Zen masters, but never has it had anyone at the top as impenetrable—or as close to unbeatable—as Novak Djokovic.

Tennis's Djokovic Complex Tom Perrotta 2011

Oh, yes, and reading about the great philosophers, soldiers, writers, stoics, saints, despots, monks and martyrs who knew something of these traits -- more, perhaps than your local mayor or teacher or even your inner self.

Peter Meyer: The Secret to Good Parenting? Good Schools. Peter Meyer 2011

They were stoics who weren't good at being noble but knew that their problems didn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world . . . until they remembered their medieval French poetry exam the next day and their Bogart moment was over.

Cool Is as Cool Was Henry Allen 2011

Christianity never allowed suicide; the stoics did --it allows a man to get the last word with fate.

"Resign, or go commit suicide." Who said that to whom? Ann Althouse 2009

Mr. Nylen explores Greek stoicism though eventually rejects it because he discovers that stoics smiled not only on promiscuity but also on cannibalism.

Fighting Battles of Life and Death Peter R. Kann 2009

Like the stoics of yore, we might even find that life, if we are lucky enough to live it out to its fullest portion, is easier to bid farewell to if it signifies nothing but the beauty and the miracle of being alive, minute by meaningless minute.

The End of the Episode 2009

How, then, to refashion the masculine narrative tradition — sustained by soldiers and stoics from Beowulf through Hemingway, Chandler and McCarthy — for current flabby male reality?

Mad Pen 2009

How, then, to refashion the masculine narrative tradition — sustained by soldiers and stoics from Beowulf through Hemingway, Chandler and McCarthy — for current flabby male reality?

Mad Pen 2009