Stoicism and the Rise and Fall of the Empire

Stoicism is a philosophy that says, like, you don't control the world around you. At its core, it's this philosophy: You only control your response to that world. George Washington read the Stoics as a teenager at Valley Forge. Thomas Jefferson died with a copy of Seneca on his nightstand. And then during the Civil War and in the Victorian era, you saw another resurgence of stoicism.