stoicism, n.All

Stoicism is to achieve traquility by seeking not that the things which happen should happen as you wish, but to wish the things which happen to be as they are.

Stoicism is striving to look like an owl when you have behaved like an ass.

Stoicism is a religion with only one sacrament: suicide!

Stoicism is the quality that keeps a woman smiling when a departing guest stands at the open screen door and lets in all the flies.