... and life's difficulties differ. On one side, Aurelius searches for meaning and happiness in his present life. On the other, St. Augustine searches for happiness in the life hereafter. Stoics define philosophy as, "striving after wisdom" (Aurelius, 10), and the aim is to live according to nature and reason (Aurelius, 16-17). Wisdom is the "knowledge of [the] divine and human ... or her life. Maxwell Staniforth describes this application of stoic philosophy into the real world as a stoic code; "a code which was manly, rational, and temperate, a code which insisted on just a virtuous deali...

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