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    2. Early homo sapiens and sociability.

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    2. Elli Quote From Pericles: "And the pleasure which we daily feel in all these things helps us to banish any sorrow."

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    2. A Sense of Guilt Among the Early Greeks? (C. S. Lewis)

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    2. Nate's "First Generation Epicureans" Research

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    2. Non-reversing mirror

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    2. Elli - On Euphronius

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    2. What Epicurus Might Say In Response To Common Cliches

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    2. New Forum - "Unsolved Mysteries" of Epicurean History

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    2. Empedocles Document Found

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    2. Epicurus Revealed in Modern Science & Technology

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    2. An Example of Stoic Logical Reasoning - On Divination

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    2. New Slideshow: Nothing Comes From Nothing

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    2. Aonius Palearius - Sixteenth Century Figure With Some Epicurean Sympathies

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    2. Oenoanda fragments

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    2. Scottish Epicurean Wisdom?

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    2. Did Epicurus Intend To Bring On His Own Death By Drinking Unmixed Wine On His Last Day? 5

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    2. Epicurean Philosophy In Relation To Gulags and the Rack 6

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    2. Epicurean philosophy skewing toward elements of Stoicism in the time of Lucretius?? 9

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