Stoics

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Stoics
     a sect of Greek philosophers at Athens, so called from the Greek
     word stoa i.e., a "porch" or "portico," where they have been
     called "the Pharisees of Greek paganism." The founder of the
     Stoics was Zeno, who flourished about B.C. 300. He taught his
     disciples that a man's happiness consisted in bringing himself


     into harmony with the course of the universe. They were trained
     to bear evils with indifference, and so to be independent of
     externals. Materialism, pantheism, fatalism, and pride were the
     leading features of this philosophy.