Cicero's Disappointment With the Stoics

Cicero seems to follow the line of other Hellenistic schools in reducing Aristotelian ethics. It is unsurprising that he prefers the Stoics, whom he sees as the most tough-minded philosophers. This isn't to say that he hesitates to borrow ideas from schools other than the Stoics. The Cyrenaics are commended for their useful advice about anticipating pain so that the pain is less hard to bear when it arrives.