Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not their elimination.
To become a stoic is to endorse the truthfulness of its world view and accept its prescription for how you ought to live, not just to like how it makes you feel.
Every stoic was a stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
What's the good of being stoical if nobody notices?
Belief in God and a future life makes it possible to go through life with less of stoic courage than is needed by skeptics.
A civilization is born Stoic and dies Epicurean.
So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.
The Stoic assures us that what is happening now will happen over and over again. [If so, Providende would] ultimately grow weary through despair.
He who despises life is his life's master.
Even the most stoic of men will be childlike at least once in a day.