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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 greece and rome have left us.
-Thomas Jefferson
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I Am An Epicurean. I Consider The

Thomas Jefferson
I am an epicurean. i consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which greece and rome have left us.
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