I had a friend whose philosophy was very similar to christian science. Although,

I had a friend whose philosophy was very similar to christian science. Although, as he practiced it: a disciplined mind, and a disciplined body, it was a well done art, not an excuse to avoid the physician and hospital. But I would not enter into that discussion with him. Ever. And he would not bridge it with me. He did not know he was a stoic. And that is what he’d sought.

Most men do not know that what they seek is a personal philosophy of stoicism, a political philosophy of soveriegnty, and transcendent philosophy of heroic literature.