Both Uses of
stoic
in
Moby Dick
- The transition is a keen one, I assure you, from a schoolmaster to a sailor, and requires a strong decoction of Seneca and the Stoics to enable you to grin and bear it.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.†
Chpt 73-75
Definition:
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(stoic) seeming unaffected by pleasure, pain, or emotions