Voorbeelden van stoic

• Natural law, as the stoics conceived it, was based upon this principle of spiritual equality.

• The stoics had grounded moral significance on capacity to reason.

• Stoics, for example, question the ability of someone to be happy (presupposing happiness is contemplation) if they are mentally incapacitated or even asleep.

• His formulation is similar to stoic sources, but more sophisticated in that he gives a name to that which is defined as under his own control : he calls that himself.

• The bustling life of the office will thus be confronted with patterns of vegetation that grow and decay with stoic slowness, like living still lifes, three-dimensional, ever-changing pictures [13].

• What the film exacts from its audience is not com-passion for a peer, but a purely sentimental pity, kept at a distance by a stoic and ultimately mortifying narrative conclusion.

• He sets himself the goal of overcoming stoic pessimism, not by changing the world, but rather by changing the thoughts about the world while retaining the stoic concept oifatum.

• I admired also their stoic attitude towards being away from their families for so long.

• We have taken the stoic professionalism of our armed forces and their officers for granted, pushing their loyalty and efficiency to the limits.

• The families have been so stoic and so strong in their campaign.

• They will certainly not maintain a stolid, stoic silence.

• Misfortune was met with a stoic resolve, and with comments such as "chin up".

• When people who are so simple and stoic are seen to be the victims, then the conscience becomes even more uneasy.

• They looked as stoic as one can be in a wheelchair.

• He describes those in between the two categories as demonstrating denial or stoic acceptance.