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noun

Stoic n.

A disciple of the philosopher Zeno; one of a Greek sect which held that men should be free from passion, unmoved by joy or grief, and should submit without complaint to unavoidable necessity, by which all things are governed.

Hence, a person not easily excited; an apathetic person; one who is apparently or professedly indifferent to pleasure or pain. "A Stoic of the woods, a man without a tear."

School of Stoics. See The Porch, under Porch.

adjective

Stoical, Stoic adj.

Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.

Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain; especially, bearing pain, suffering, or bad fortune without complaint.

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"Stoic" Quotes from Famous Books

... good-humouredly the disparaging terms attached to them by their enemies or rivals. The Epicureans acquiesced in the pig, the Cynics in the dog, and Cleanthes was content to be called the Ass of Zeno, as being alone capable of bearing the burthen of the Stoic philosophy. ...

— Gryll Grange • Thomas Love Peacock

... quarrelled last night, after I left you; my fair cousin has some humours that would tempt the patience of a Stoic. What, some coxcomb came in, and was well received by her, while ...

— The Way of the World • William Congreve

... which you discern once more its lasting validity and significance—its imperishable place in human life. It becomes simply that preaching of the Kingdom of God which belongs to and affects you—you, the modern European—just as Greek philosophy, Stoic or Cynic, was that preaching of it which belonged to ...

— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... the pleadings of a Stoic and an Epicurean for and against the existence of the Divinity in Lucian's Jupiter the ...

— The Life Of Johnson, Volume 3 of 6 • Boswell

... every morning before he went down town, and on again at seven in the evening. The meals in the dining-room, naturally the darkest room in the house, were eaten in absolute silence. In fact, it was seldom that anyone spoke except on Mrs. Yorba's reception day. Herself wore the air of a stoic. Don Roberto's keen eyes searched his wife and daughter now and again for any sign of extravagance in attire, but he rarely addressed them except on the first of the month, when he demanded their accounts. He peremptorily forbade them to go out after dusk, as the night air was bad for the horses. ...

— The Californians • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

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