ataraxy

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Having thus outlined these policies, he relapsed into his ataraxy, affirming that he had not seen a Philadelphia paper until he had received those inclosed by Madison.

From Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism by Chinard, Gilbert

"Thus philosophy is only an apprenticeship of death, and not of life; it tends to death by its image, apathy and ataraxy."

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)