Stoics

Referencing the Stoics is not therefore, as far as the Elders of Sodom are concerned, a good foundation for an argument that one's views were born of atheistic rationalism rather than religious hokum.

Stoicism, Sophistry and Sodomy Hal Duncan 2009

Referencing the Stoics is not therefore, as far as the Elders of Sodom are concerned, a good foundation for an argument that one's views were born of atheistic rationalism rather than religious hokum.

Archive 2009-08-01 Hal Duncan 2009

For there was a man of genius called Zeno, and the disciples of his teaching are called Stoics.

CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010

The trick, according to Montaigne and the Stoics, is to not let your emotions run away with you.

Kenny Rogers and Michel de Montaigne Separated at Birth? « So Many Books 2004

At that time (for the world was not yet Christianized) there flourished a race of teachers and philosophers known as Stoics -- wise old pagans, who held that the perfect man must be free from passion, unmoved by either joy or grief, taking every thing just as it came, with supreme and utter indifference.

Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

The Greek philosophical school known as the Stoics used the term to denote the 'world soul', the underlying principle that was thought to account for the order in the universe.

Archive 2009-06-01 James F. McGrath 2009

The Greek philosophical school known as the Stoics used the term to denote the 'world soul', the underlying principle that was thought to account for the order in the universe.

Beholding His Glory (John 1:1-18): A Sermon James F. McGrath 2009

The views of moral character held by Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoics are the starting point for most other philosophical discussions of character.

Moral Character Homiak, Marcia 2007

If you would not, you will not differ at all from us who are called Stoics; for we also say one thing, but we do another: we talk of the things which are beautiful, but we do what is base.

The Discourses of Epictetus 2004

And then if he is a fool that is not wise, and every good man according to the Stoics is a wise man, it is no wonder if all mankind be concluded under folly.

In Praise of Folly c. 1466-1536 1958