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Letter "E" » Epicurus
«The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty.»
«EPICURE, n. An opponent of Epicurus, an abstemious philosopher who, holding that pleasure should be the chief aim of man, wasted no time in gratification from the senses.»
«And with Epicurus, I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
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«I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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doctrines, epicurean, Epicureans, Epicurus, Greek, impute, imputed, imputes, imputing, moral philosophy, roman
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