Category: Twentieth Memorials
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of April – On “Ever-Changing Desires”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Today is the Twentieth of April, the day of the month designated by...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of March: If [happiness] be absent, ALL our actions are directed towards attaining it.
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Today is the Twentieth of March, the day of the month designated by...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of February – Pleasure, Pain, and Erroneous Standards
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be – Happy Twentieth! Here’s a point on which I sometimes see confusion: The Epicureans held that...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January – The Limits of Education And the Need to Be “Well Constituted”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Happy Twentieth! Today’s thought comes from 3 Lucretius, where the poet discusses that the nature of...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of December – Doubt Is Unpleasant, But It’s Not The Worst Enemy!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Happy Twentieth! As I get back to posting on a regular schedule after my recent trip,...
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Peace and Safety for Your Twentieth of November – Epicurean Theory Applies To Everyone And To The Most Difficult Of Issues
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Happy Twentieth! In recent weeks a series of “terrorist” attacks has rocked the world, and...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October – Tips on Epicurean Reasoning from Philodemus
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Every day, not just the Twentieth, is a good day to remember that Epicurean philosophy teaches a...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of September! – An Overview of the Letter to Herodotus
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! This month for the Twentieth, I offer a quick outline of the major points of...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of August!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Many philosophers (particularly Stoics) assert that virtues are ends in themselves. They assert – in...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Vatican Saying 45: “The study of nature does not create men who are fond of boasting...