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Stoicism

A philosophical doctrine born in Greece with Zenon of Citium (334-262), which spread throughout Ancient Rome from the 1st century B.C. It recommended the suppression of vain desires in order to escape unfortunate strokes of fate and thus achieve individual happiness. Such behaviour demands of its disciples mastery of the self and a constant will to trace their conduct on reason. Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD), Epictetus (50-130 AD° and Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD° where, in the first two centuries of the Roman Empire, the best known representatives of this demanding morality. 

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