ataraxia

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For Epicurus, achieving ataraxia requires confronting irrational fears, especially the fear of death.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

And I think what I found is much like what Greek philosophers called ataraxia, a suspended kind of calm in which you can find a surprising strength.

From New York Times • Sep. 2, 2015

The purpose of Scepticism is then the hope of ataraxia, and its origin was in the troubled state of mind induced by the inequality of things, and uncertainty in regard to the truth.

From Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism by Patrick, Mary Mills

Such an ataraxia may have been obtained by a few sages of old, but it is hardly human, and Jefferson, like Adams, was very human.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

That terrible Latin poet Lucretius, whose apparent serenity and Epicurean ataraxia conceal so much despair, said that piety consists in the power to contemplate all things with a serene soul—pacata posse mente omnia tueri.

From Tragic Sense Of Life by Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford)