But a real problem with Stoicism is that it’s lonely. Christians have their communion, Buddhists have their sangha, but Stoics, rational as they are, have no ritual to join them together, no church in ...

J. R. Mattingly, Early Stoicism and the Problem of its Systematic Form, The Philosophical Review, Vol. 48, No. 3 (May, 1939), pp. 273-295 ...