William FlemingThinkers

Apathy is, for the Stoics, the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason.

Prudence is one of the virtues which were called cardinal by the ancient ethical writers.

Science is knowledge certain and evident in itself, or by the principles from which it is deducted, or with which it is certainly connected. It is subjective, as existing in the mind; objective, as embodied in truths; speculative, as leading to do something, as in practical science.