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[STOE-i-siz'-ahm] 
1. an indifference to pleasure or pain; stolidity; impassiveness: "Once his team had sunk to a sufficient depth in the league standings, Anthony would regress into a dour stoicism, beyond reach for the rest of the year."
2. the philosophical system and maxims of the Stoics, founded by the Greek philosopher Zeno, about 308 B.C.
Origin:
Approximately 1626; from New Latin, 'stoicismus'; from Latin, 'stoicus'; from Greek, 'stoikos': of or relating to members or doctrines of the Stoics, from 'stoa': portico, porch -- referring to the portico in Athens where Zeno taught. In action:
"Forced to take desperate measures in a last-minute attempt to avert disaster and save the free world, President Clinton ordered top military scientists to inject his body with a highly unstable experimental growth serum Monday.
Drachler continued: 'The interest on the national debt continues to swell, causing Earth to spiral ever closer to the sun. Baron Milosevic, although defeated for now, may return unexpectedly in future episodes, augmented by a powerful new missile-equipped Serbi-Suit. Clinton had to act now, before his enemies in Congress, working in conjunction with the Squadron Of Evil, finally complete work on the dreaded Bureauchronic Ray.'
Several White House associates, including Zardoz himself, had begged to undergo the injection in Clinton's place in order to protect the office of the president from potential side effects of bioplasmorphic mutation. They report that Clinton refused, maintaining a courageous, patriotic stoicism in the face of their emotional pleas.
'The people of this country elected me to do a job, and I can't turn my back on them,' Clinton said. 'This is my fight. I am the president, and the responsibility must come down to me and me alone.'
"Clinton Injected With Highly Unstable Experimental Growth Serum," The Onion.com.
"There is no faith, and no stoicism, and no philosophy, that a mortal man can possibly evoke, which will stand the final test of a real impassioned onset of Life and Passion upon him. Then all the fair philosophic or Faith-phantoms that he raised from the mist, slide away and disappear as ghosts at cock-crow. For Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass. Amidst his gray philosophizings, Life breaks in upon a man like a morning."
Herman Melville (1819�1891). U.S. author. Pierre (1852).
"'T 's pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul;
I think the Romans call it stoicism."
Joseph Addison (1672�1719). English essayist, poet, and statesman. Cato (1713).
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