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DaveT
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Cassius
PostJanuary 31, 2026 at 8:30 AM Episode 318 of the Lucretius Today Podcast is now available. This week our episode is entitled: "In the End It Is Pleasure - Not Virtue - That Gives Meaning To A Happy Life."
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Cassius
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Bryan
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Bryan
Reaction (Post)January 30, 2026 at 11:09 PM This is exactly the kind of conversation I'd like to have here to help us prepare for when we record the summary, so this is a fine place for it. I may need to ask you to be a little more clear as to what you are saying however. I picked out this… -
Bryan
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Kalosyni
January 30, 2026 at 7:45 PM Replied to the thread Summarizing Epicurean Answers to Tusculan Questions.Post[…]
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Bryan
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to Cassius’s post in the thread Episode 319 - EATAQ1 - Epicurean Answers To Academic Questions - Not Yet Recorded.I am going to be trying to review the text from a couple of different perspectives, and to assist in that I've prepared a text-to-speech edition which I can listen to while traveling or at other opportunities.
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