| The Dutch know neither blood nor soil, but only the water that flows around and inside them: the land wrested from the sea is populated by stoics. |
| He explores the ideas of the pre-Socratic and classical Greek philosophers and their intellectual milieu, but also later Roman stoics. |
| Since 1993, I've gone through a great deal of philosophy, in particular works by the Roman stoics such as Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Cicero. |
| It is possible that the spiritualists may become the stoics of a new epoch of caesarian rule. |
| But stoics take rugs, umbrellas, thick coats and bracing amounts of booze. |
| We see livestock dotting the hillsides as we climb and I wonder what sort of doughty stoics would choose to farm such challenging country. |
