The Stoics and Epicureans, so far apart at first sight, were very similar in their ultimate aim. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
The state seems to have assigned the Academy to Plato, the Lyceum to Aristotle, and the Portico to Zeno of Citta, the founder of the Stoics. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
The Watsons, who were very sick too, and on whom the stewardess attended with shameless partiality, were stoics compared with her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
Both, indeed, gave themselves to some science--the Epicureans to physics, the Stoics to logic and rhetoric--but only as a means to an end. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.