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2. Episode 288 - TD18 - Tusculan Disputations Part 3 - "Will The Wise Man Feel Grief Or Other Strong Emotions?" 11
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2. Episode 284 - TD14 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 2
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2. Episode Seventy-Four - Eclipses, And The Beginnings of Life on Earth 1
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2. Episode 290 - TD20 - TipToeing Around All Disturbance Is Not Living 12
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2. Episode Ninety-Four: Torquatus Explains Pleasure As the Goal of Life 4
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2. Episode Forty-Eight - Nature Speaks To Us About Death 1
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2. Episode 258 - There Is No Necessity To Live Under the Control of Necessity - Part 2 (Conclusion) 3
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2. Episode Seventeen - All Things Are Not Made of Fire, And Heraclitus Was A Fool 2
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2. Episode 262 - He Who Says "Nothing Can Be Known" Knows Nothing 4
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2. Episode Forty-One - The Nature of the Mind and Spirit Is Complex; Sense is Not a Property of The Elements That Make Them, But An Event of Their Combination And Motions 2
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2. Episode 261 - Death Is Nothing To Us 3
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2. Episode Twenty-Three - The Motion Of The Atoms Continues Without Resting Place, and At Great Speed 1
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2. Episode Fifty - Opening of Book Four - Beginning the DIscussion of Images 2
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2. Episode 165 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 19 - Chapter 9 - The New Physics 01 1
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2. Episode 256 - Epicurean Gods: Real, Or Ideal Thought Constructs? 3
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2. Episode 232 - Cicero's OTNOTG - 07 - Velleius Attacks The Platonist And Aristotelian Views Of Gods 3
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2. Episode One Hundred Thirty-One - Letter to Pythocles 05 - Weather Phenomena 1
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2. Episode 282 - TD13 - Is A Trifling Pain A Greater Evil Than The Worst Infamy? 7
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2. Episode Thirty-Five - More Reasons Why The Atoms Cannot Possess The Faculty of Sense 2
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2. Episode 281 - TD12 - Is Pain The Greatest Evil - Or Even An Evil At All? 6
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2. Episode Eighty-Eight - The Waters of the Nile And The Sulfur Pits That Are Fatal To Birds 3
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2. What Kinds Of Podcasts Should We Target First? 3
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2. Episode Seventy - More On The End of The World 2
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2. Episode 210 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 17 - Self-Approval As Pleasure 2
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2. Episode Eighty-Nine - Unusual Geological Phenomena - Springs That Change From Hot to Cold And Back Again 2
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2. Episode Twenty-Four: The Swerve Part One: As A Producing Force of Nature 2
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2. Episode 169 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 22 - Chapter 10 - The New Freedom 02 3
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2. Episode 268 - Pleasure Is The Guide Of Life (The Role of Pleasure In Life) 7
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2. Episode 208 - Cicero's On Ends - Book Two - Part 16 - Epicurus Stands For the Truth Rather than Make-Believe 3
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2. Episode 293 - TD23 - Cicero Accuses Epicurus Of Evasion In Calling "Absence of Pain" A "Pleasure" 9
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