id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7396 Stoicism - Wikipedia .html text/html 8475 1320 59 The word "stoic" commonly refers to someone who is indifferent to pain, pleasure, grief, or joy.[8] The modern usage as a "person who represses feelings or endures patiently" was first cited in 1579 as a noun and in 1596 as an adjective.[9] In contrast to the term "Epicurean", the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Stoicism notes, "the sense of the English adjective 'stoical' is not utterly misleading with regard to its philosophical origins."[10] In an article for ABC News, Mick Mulroy the former Deputy Secretary of Defense for the Middle East under Secretary Jim Mattis and also a retired U.S. Marine, advocated for using stoicism as the philosophy for the U.S. Military due to its views on controlling anger and fear as well as the stoic concept of universal brotherhood. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7396.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7396.txt