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    2. O'Keefe: "Epicurean Advice for the Modern Consumer" 4

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    2. Hermarchus’ Regression of Prayer meme 2

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    2. A sage “masters wealth” - Epicurus 1

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    2. Polyaenus quotes 3

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    2. Poem - Iowa Fields 3

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    2. Book Review - Call Me By Your Name 3

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    2. Metrodorus’ Epistle to Timocrates 3

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    2. Edward Abbey - My Favorite Quotes

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    2. The Good man is a good financier ... 5

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    2. Tactics In Combatting Word-Game Trickery 1

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    2. Happy Twentieth of July: Remembering That Pleasure Has Many Enemies 3

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    2. Sedley On Diogenes of Oenoanda, Pleasure vs Virtue, and Textual Reconstruction

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    2. In memory of the Men 1

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    2. On Epicurean Chaplaincy 8

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    2. How The Christians Wiped Out Epicureanism

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    2. Why Epicurean ideas suit the challenges of modern secular life 5

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    2. Epicurus’ On Nature, Books I-X 1

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    2. Poem - Abonoteichus 6

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    2. "Being," "Becoming," and Epicurus

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    2. International Day of Friendship

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    2. Epicurus’ On Nature – Books XI-XIV

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    2. Epicurus on Justice and the Virtues​​ 1

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    2. Did Epicurus Create a Finished Product? 4

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    2. Epicurus' On Nature: Books XXV and XXVIII

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    2. Philodemus and Epicurean Philosophy: Changing Perceptions - Sonya Wurster 1

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    2. Did Epicurus Intend To Commit Suicide By Drinking Unmixed Wine On His Last Day? 5

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

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