Month: July 2013
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“Tell me not, Zeno, that the teacher is vicious who washes depravity from the youthful heart; who lays the storm of its passions, and turns all its sensibilities to good.”
The following words never were spoken by Epicurus, but they entered world literature in 1822, over the name of Frances Wright, and they clearly come from the pen of someone...
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New Audio Presentation of The Letter to Herodotus
[Latest Updated Version in MP3 here.] [Vimeo Edition] Of all the original texts that are available from the ancient world, Epicurus’ Letter to Herodotus preserved by Diogenes Laertius is our...
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Pride, Vanity, Ambition … and Cynicism
The following is a fictional dialogue from Frances Wright’s “A Few Days In Athens,” Chapter IV. In this sequence, Gryphus the Cynic had just confronted Epicurus to demand that Epicurus...
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“That the impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical …. hath established and maintained false religions over the greatest part of the world and through all time.”
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1777, by Thomas Jefferson: An Act for establishing religious Freedom. Whereas, Almighty God hath created the mind free; That all attempts to influence it...