As a matter of fact these beautiful priests in the temple of "good form" were splendid stoics.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
And Seneca treats in the same fashion the hair-splitting and verbal subtleties of some of the older stoics.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The idealism and the pessimism of the earlier stoics were alike fatal to any effort of moral reform.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill