stoical
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1. stoical - Noun
2. stoical - Adjective
3. stoical - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Of or pertaining to the Stoics; resembling the Stoics or their doctrines.
Not affected by passion; manifesting indifference to pleasure or pain.
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The Stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.
Post-structuralism is among other things a kind of theoretical hangover from the failed uprising of ‘68, a way of keeping the revolution warm at the level of language, blending the euphoric libertarianism of that moment with the stoical melancholia of its aftermath.
Even of death Christianity has made a terror which was unknown to the gay calmness of the Pagan and the stoical repose of the Indian.
Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope I shall remain so. I have but one prayer at heart; and that is, to have my faculties so far preserved that I can be useful, in some way or other, to the last.
The sublime is excited in me by the great stoical doctrine, Obey thyself.
It is not reasonings that are wanted now; for there are books stuffed full of stoical reasonings.