Crossword-Solution: ATARAXY 7 letters, 5 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Youth all around prancing, vociferating, mocking; callow and alien youth, having to be looked after and studied and taught, as though nothing but it mattered, term after term--and now, all of a sudden, in mid-term, peace, ataraxy, a profound and leisured stillness.

With this, she bent over him to kiss his brow, but he raised himself a little, and said, with a contemptuous smile: "Apathy--ataraxy--complete indifference--is the highest aim after which the soul of the skeptic strives.

With this, she bent over him to kiss his brow, but he raised himself a little, and said, with a contemptuous smile: “Apathy--ataraxy--complete indifference--is the highest aim after which the soul of the skeptic strives.

The Greeks would have Philosophy for its own sake; the ataraxy of the Stoics, Epicureans, and Skeptics even, desired the result of a necessary principle; but the Roman, on the contrary, wished to lift himself by philosophemes above trouble and misfortune.

One must be so elastic as to suit himself to all situations, and, as a caricature of the ancient ataraxy, he must acquire as a second nature a manner perfectly indifferent to all changes, the impassibility of an aristocratic repose, the amphibious _sang-froid_ of the "gentleman." The man in the world as the man of the world sought his ideal in endless dissimulation, and in this, as the flowering of his culture, he took the highest interest.