Stoicism or Epicureanism?

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Epicrurianism is not hedonism, and the confusion between the two leads to the former getting a bad rep.

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Yeah, I meant hedonism in the conventional understanding of the term. Epicurius preached the importance of purging suffering and pain, not just from one's own lived experience, but from the lives of others as well. To the Epicurians, simple pleasures were how one achieved peace of mind: they ate simple food, had a small circle of good friends and eschewed the rat race of politicking/glory-seeking/profiteering; their refusal to embrace the grotesque world of Roman politics is why a lot of Ancient writers thought they were deeply suspicious (well, that and the deism). Overindulgence leads to suffering, to yourself or others, so it should be avoided (although the average Romans thought both Stoics and Epicurians to be weirdo reprobates, they would probably both be far better and quieter neighbours than the more conventional upper class Romans)