The Stoics and the Philosophy of Henry David Thoreau

You now join the ranks of Marcus Aurelius, Cato, Seneca, Thomas Jefferson, James Stockdale, Epictetus, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington. All these men explicitly practiced and studied stoicism. Frederick the Great was said to ride with the works of the Stoics in his saddlebags because they could sustain you in misfortune. The economist Adam Smith's theories on the interconnectedness of the world, capitalism, were significantly influenced by Stoicism as a schoolboy.