stoic
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1. stoic - Noun
2. stoic - Adjective
3. stoic - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
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.
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It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
A stoic of the woods-a man without a tear.
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by sceptics.
From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr.
Victor: Get Stoic.