Category: Twentieth Memorials
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of October! Down With The Geometers!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! David Furley, in his Two Studies in the Greek Atomists, directs our attention to both “indivisible...
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HAPPY BELATED TWENTIETH OF SEPTEMBER! – To Compensate for My Lateness – Links To PDFs Every Fan of Epicurus Ought To Have
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Sorry for the delay in posting this Happy Twentieth Message! I have been reviewing my own...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of August, and A Few Thoughts on The Folly of Thinking Virtue Is Its Own Reward
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! In preparing my recent synopsis of the Inscription of Diogenes in Oinoanda, I was confronted with...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of July: “[T]he ideas of the Deity in the minds of vulgar worshipers in general are, and ever will be, false, erroneous, and idolatrous….”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Here are three parallel observations on the nature of religion: First believe that God is a...
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Peace and Safety for your Twentieth of June – May you have many smooth and agreeable motions today!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! One of the great benefits I have found from Facebook is talking with friends about fine...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of May – “Wisdom Has Nothing In Common With Fortune”
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Epicurus was very clear that “Fate,” “Fortune,””Luck,” and similar forces that some men believe to be...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of March! On The Importance of Reading the Original Texts
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! For today’s Twentieth post I would like to focus on a single thought; the importance of...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of February!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Today I would like to recognize that we have had several new Epicurean websites appear in...
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Peace and Safety For Your Twentieth of January!
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Today I would like to devote my 20th post to my favorite passage from Seneca, which...
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Peace And Safety For Your Twentieth of December!!! – How Do You Choose Your Food?
Peace and Safety to the Epicureans of today, no matter where you might be! Recent events in Connecticut remind us that death at an untimely young age is especially tragic. ...