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    2. Key CItations - The Limit of Quantity of Pleasure Is Reached When All Pain Is Eliminated

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      • October 4, 2023 at 12:20 PM
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    2. Plato's Philebus and the Limit of Pleasure 15

      • Joshua
      • May 25, 2022 at 10:18 PM
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    2. Visualizing Principal Doctrine Three 9

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      • February 15, 2019 at 9:03 AM
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    2. David Sedley's "Epicurean vs Cyreniac Happiness"

      • Cassius
      • February 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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    2. Principal Doctrine Three - The Full Tank Analogy

      • Cassius
      • February 5, 2019 at 9:03 AM
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    2. Comparison With Excerpt in Gorgias

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      • September 24, 2016 at 3:13 PM
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    2. Is All Desire Painful? How Would Epicurus Answer? 8

      • Cassius
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    2. Pompeii Then and Now 7

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    2. Names of Bits of Reality 4

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    2. ⟐ as the symbol of the philosophy of Epicurus 15

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    2. Why pursue unnecessary desires? 74

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