Followers of Epictetus

Usage examples of stoics.

Its situation was in Piccadilly, fronting the Green Park, and through the many windows of its ground-floor smoking-room the public were privileged to see at all hours of the day numbers of Stoics in various attitudes reading the daily papers or gazing out of the window.

But though the principle of no occupation overruled all class distinctions, the Stoics were mainly derived from the landed gentry.

And all--for all had poetry in their souls--looked forward to those hours in paradise when, with cigars between their lips, good wine below, they might dream the daily dream that comes to all true Stoics for about fifteen shillings or even less, all told.

But most of the Stoics did not look at them at all, feeling that their soft hearts could not stand these painful sights, and anxious not to spoil their dinners.

And Stoics, who could not bear to see a man sit thus throughout that sacred hour, came up from time to time.

Club and seen the Stoics sitting there have haunting visions of the idle landed classes.

But this is an ancient, eternal story: what formerly happened with the Stoics still happens today, too, as soon as any philosophy begins to believe in itself.

More important, however, stoics strap themselves in ethically so that their actions have as few results as possible.