Lipsius was a great studier of the stoical philosophy.
The booths were hung with finery, upon which squaws stood gazing with a stoical eye to be envied by civilized woman.
In his life among the Indians and Mexicans he had absorbed their stoical ways and almost brutal directness, yet, sometimes he showed a sensitiveness that was utterly impossible for Carolyn June to understand.
Such, in bare outline, is Southern Buddhism--in its origin a stoical agnosticism which ignored the gods and bade men rely upon themselves in following the paths of goodness that lead to happiness.
To some thinkers this stoical self-mastery is the strongest element of Buddhism.
This is not, however, the only instance in which Seneca yielded his stoical principles to the dictates of natural affection and rational judgment.
This indifference to life was also augmented by the spread of stoical and epicurean principles.
A stoical wise man is ever ready to die for his country or his friends.
The doctrines inculcated by the stoical philosophers, or the disciples of Zeno, must have increased the crime of suicide.
And yet these cases are considered to constitute a justification of the stoical dogma, that we have a right when we please to put an end to our own existence.
Zeno, the founder of the sect of stoical philosophers, acted up to the principles which he inculcated to his disciples.
That there was a good deal of this species of tired or stoical semi-rationalism among the Jews of the Hellenistic period may be inferred from various traces.
After all, between the combatants, there was only a difference of age; the race is the same; it is the same stoical men who died at the age of twenty for their ideas, at forty for their families.
As concerns the relations of public life, the social community, and the state, the Stoical doctrine appears, no doubt, in a worthier and a better light.
Pleasure courted him in a thousand varying forms, but he beheld her most seducing blandishments with disgust and stoical indifference.
A thousand and a thousand times I have shed torrents of tears, and felt the most tormenting anxiety for those who would have seen me with the most stoicalapathy begging through the street for bread.
Stoical in his discomfiture, he saw his opening with no more than a glitter of his insolent eyes, and took it as though he had never foreseen anything else.
I feel," she said, with a stoical conviction, "that I shall be fair game to him as long as we are both in the world.
Daun knows all this; but in a stoical arithmetical manner, and refuses to be flurried by it.
He had been brought up under the influence of Greek Stoical thought, with which, almost in spite of itself, there was always associated an element of pity.
From his talks with Alfieri, and from the pages of Plutarch, he had gained a certain insight into the Stoical view of reason as the measure of conduct, and of the inherent sufficiency of virtue as its own end.
To suppose that man will long rest content with mere naked reason as his guide is to forget that “illusion is the queen of the human heart”; it is to revive the stoical error.
The Taoist notion of following nature is closely related, as in other naturalistic movements, to the idea of fate whether in its stoical or epicurean form.
Whereas here it takes a pull to hold yourself together; it needs both hands, and a book of stoical maxims, and a sort of bitterness at the heart by way of armour.
And whatever might be the abstract and philosophical value of that somewhat grimly stoical conception of the universe, of conduct and duty, at which in mature years he had arrived, want of manliness is certainly not its fault.
Curumilla, stoical as ever, had cut a piece of candlewood, and concealed himself in the shrubs only a few paces from the wild beast.
With a feverish movement she took the paper from Sunbeam's hand, hastily wrote a few words, and returned it to the young Indian, who stood motionless and stoical before her.
Depraved though he was, he would not consent to such a sacrifice, and he met his fate withstoical fortitude.
We need not be stoical or affectedly bright; we often cannot give those who love us greater joy than to tell them of our troubles and let them comfort us.
In his beautiful villa by the sea, with its hanging woods and gardens, ruling with diligence, he seemed to me more like a stoical Roman Emperor, or a tempestuous Sadducee, the spirit of the world incarnate.
This being so, it may be urged against the definition that it could not be accepted by a moralist of stoical turn, who while recognising pleasure as a fact refused to recognise it as in any degree ultimately desirable.
Living with Sallie and Julia is an awful strain on my stoical philosophy.
There's no doubt about it, Daddy; New York would rapidly undermine this fine, stoical character which the John Grier Home so patiently built up.
I skipped before my looking-glass; and, tossing back the long tresses which I had let fall on my shoulders, surveyed with no small complacency the charms which were acknowledged by the stoical Mr Maitland.
I did not dare to meet the stoical scrutiny of her eye, and hastily retreated from the door.
Each horseman chose out the man to whom he intended to give a horse, and a shower of lashes fell on the naked shoulders of these stoical warriors.
There was something strange in the group formed by these three stoical men in the midst of the hundreds of Indians yelling around them.
With that rapidity of resolution which the Indians possess in so eminent a degree, Natah Otann shut up his vexation in his heart, and not a trace of emotion again appeared on his stoical countenance.
At this, the inflexible magistrate took a resolution, which many will call inhuman, but whose awful self-conquest certainly belongs to the rarest examples of stoical firmness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stoical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: calm; impassive; patient; philosophical; phlegmatic; stoical; unmoved
