"Stoics maintained that by overcoming passions, self-indulgence and unjust thoughts, and performing duty with a right disposition, man could acquire virtue and live at one with Nature."

Symbols, whats your field of profession?

Should I say that it's propitious of you to be bring up the issue of 'stoicism'? At first the matter looked distant, but then I have been tracing philosophy back in time and continents, and how they may have come from one primordial philosophy. Adamic language perhaps.

There's a whole world to be explored from your prompting.

True. The pursuit of truth is nonetheless a pursuit of a lifetime, with evolutions in-between don't u agree?

So far, evidence favors your sentiments.