The Stoic Creed - College of Stoic Philosophers

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THE STOIC
CREED
SECTION A. MOULDING INFLUENCES,
AND LEADERS OF THE SCHOOL
CHAPTER I
THE SOCRATIC IMPULSE
Who, firmly good in
First Socrates,
a corrupted state,
Against the rage of tyrants single stood,
Invincible ! calm Reason s holy law,
That voice of God within th* attentive mind,
Obeying, fearless, or in life or death :
Great moral teacher ! wisest of mankind !
THOMSON.
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ALL the Greek philosophies that have permanently
influenced the world attach themselves ultimately to
Socrates not least that of the 1
Stoics, whose founder
was first drawn to philosophy by the Memorabilia of
Xenophon (see Diogenes Laertius, vii. 3), and which
reproduced as its fundamental features the leading
1 The name "
Stoic
comes from Stoa Poecile or Painted Porch
at Athens, in which Zeno, the founder, lectured,
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