He strikes us as being the great Stoic of the East, for he believed that virtue was based on knowledge, knowledge of a man's own heart, and knowledge of human-kind.

you knew what IMy life" The weary stoic in the blue kimono eyed him very coldly, then plucked him by the sleeve.

Another component principle of this honour is courage, or "greatness of soul", which (continues Cicero) has been well defined by the Stoics as "a virtue contending for justice and honesty"; and its noblest form is a generous contempt for ordinary objects of ambition, not "from a vain or fantastic humour, but from solid principles of reason".

To a man who, like Seneca, aimed at being not only a philosopher, but also a man of the worldwho in this very treatise criticises the Stoics for their ignorance of lifethere would not have seemed to be even the shadow of disgrace in a private effusion of insincere flattery intended to win the remission of a deplorable banishment.

But, of the two antagonistic theories, he leans rather to the Stoic than to the Epicurean.

These are most fully treated in his essay "De Natura Deorum," in which he submits the doctrines of the Epicureans and the Stoics to the objections of the Academy.

Whereas Stoics like you, Sextus, and unfortunates like me, who don't know how to amuse a woman, are made notorious by one least lapse from our austerity.

Zeno institutes the sect of Stoics at Athens.

But to the mind of the Stoic on the throne, says Arnold, the Christians were "philosophically contemptible, politically subversive, and morally abominable."

From what we know of Panaetius' ethical teaching,and in the first two books of Cicero's work, de Officiis, we have a fairly complete view of it,we do not find the old doctrine that absolute wisdom and justice are the only ends to pursue, and everything else indifferent; a doctrine which put the old-fashioned Stoic out of court in public life.

He became a Stoic from very early years.

The professor is a stoic before his class, but there's blood in the fellow.