Stoicism was one of ancient Greece's philosophical movements founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC ...

Like earlier philosophers, Zeno taught that the universe itself was God, and that all things are ... of short sayings which exemplify how Stoic views should be applied to daily life.

The salient difference between stoicism and Christianity is prayer. The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius dispenses with the need for prayer, which is tantamount to dispensing with the need for God.

The first division of the Noble Eightfold Path is “right view,” or maintaining perspective ... As if the things that irritate us lasted. God, Fate, and Evil Stoic physics is indebted to ...