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"Stoic" in a Sentence (13 examples)
Tom is stoic.
Tom remained stoic.
Tom seems stoic.
After Tom died, Mary found the house filled with a jumble of newspapers, children's toys and old holiday decorations. With stoic determination, Mary began to unjumble the attic contents before she put the rest of the house in order.
Marcus Aurelius, called the Philosopher, was a Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher.
Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus are the three most important Stoic philosophers.
He's stoic.
The longer I remain alive the more stoic I become.
Mr. Utterson is seen as stoic by people who don't know him well.
The philosophical descendants of the author of the Organon were notorious for their ignorance of logic, and in ethics had approximated considerably to the Stoic teaching.
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The anima mundi, to whose disposal of his own personal destiny the Stoic consents, is there to be respected and submitted to, but the Christian God is there to be loved; and the difference of emotional atmosphere is like that between an arctic climate and the tropics, though the outcome in the way of accepting actual conditions uncomplainingly may seem in abstract terms to be much the same.
Even a Rolls-Royce owner, I began to feel, would be a stoic to travel across Europe by car when the "Rheingold" is on offer.
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accept the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic resignation to necessity, or with the passionate happiness of Christian saints.
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