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Happy Twentieth of July! – “Dreading Nothing So Much As To Seem To Doubt Of Anything!” 🙂
Happy Twentieth of July! Recent discussions of Epicurean gods provide a great opportunity to review one of the most delightful of the records preserved by Cicero, from his “On The Nature of The Gods.” Here is confirmation C. Velleius, someone “then reputed by the Epicureans [to be] the ablest of our countrymen” liked to discuss the subject of the gods …
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Happy Twentieth of June! — Vatican Saying 38 – Pleasure strengthens us; Pain Destroys Us
Happy Twentieth of June! Vatican Saying 38 is a very interesting contribution to our understanding of Epicurus’ view of pleasure, not as something simply to be consumed, but something akin to food which strengthens us. Here is the Bailey translation: As Seneca recorded: Sic fac omnia tamquam spectet Epicurus! So do all things as though watching were …
