The Greatest Quotes of Ancient Greece’s Stoic Philosophers
” width=”700″>“The School of Athens,” by Raphael, showing Zeno of Citium and a host of other Ancient Greek luminaries. Vatican Museums. Credit: Public domain
Stoicism, one of the philosophical movements of the Hellenistic period, was founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early third century BC.
Stoicism is a philosophy of personal ethics informed by its system of logic and its views on the natural world. For the Stoic, virtue alone is sufficient for human happiness.
” width=”1080″>For Stoics, emotions like fear or envy or passionate love were merely false judgements and that the sage – a person who had attained moral and intellectual perfection – would not be touched by them.