Definition of "stoics" []

• Plural form of stoic. (noun)

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• "Scorn of theories is one of their chief race-characteristics, and that is why they end in becoming stoics -- stoics, that is, as the beasts are, who suffer without knowing why."
• "Foley's writing is energetic, witty and erudite, peppered with lively quotes from the great philosophers, especially stoics and existentialists, and engages with the work of modern psychologists as well."
• "They were stoics who weren't good at being noble but knew that their problems didn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world . . . until they remembered their medieval French poetry exam the next day and their Bogart moment was over."