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    1. VS33 - Exactly How Is The Man Described In VS33 Rivaling Zeus?

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 9:58 PM
      • Epicurus - The "Vatican List" of Sayings
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 9:58 PM
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    1. Key Citations - Knowledge Is Possible

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 7:53 PM
      • He Who Says Nothing Can Be Known Knows Nothing - Rejection of Skepticism
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    1. Key Citations - Rejection of Platonic Idealism And Aristotelian Essences

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 7:49 PM
      • Nature Is Not Controlled By Ideal Forms, Mathematics, or Geometry
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    1. Key Citations - Nothing Is Supernatural - No Gods Over Nature

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 7:47 PM
      • No Supernatural Gods - True Gods Have No Attributes Inconsistent With Blessedness and Incorruptibility
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    1. Key Citations - Nothing Is Immortal Except the Atoms - No Immortal Soul

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 5:07 PM
      • Death Is Nothing To Us - No Immortal Soul
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    1. Key Citations - The Universe As Infinite In Space - Many Worlds With Life 32

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      • October 4, 2023 at 4:45 PM
      • The Existence of Life Here And Elsewhere In The Universe
      • Cassius
      • August 3, 2024 at 9:11 AM
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    3. Don

      August 3, 2024 at 9:11 AM
    1. Key Citations - Nothing From Nothing And Nothing To Nothing

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 4:30 PM
      • Nothing Can Be Created From Nothing - Nothing Can Be Destroyed To Nothing
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    1. The Description of Epicurean Philosophy On Wikipedia 10

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      • October 4, 2023 at 4:03 PM
      • Epicurus on the Internet, Analysis
      • Cassius
      • February 1, 2024 at 3:03 PM
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    1. Key CItations - The Limit of Quantity of Pleasure Is Reached When All Pain Is Eliminated

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:20 PM
      • Life Is Desirable, But Unlimited Time Contains No Greater Pleasure Than Limited Time
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:20 PM
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    1. Key Citations For "Pleasure Is Desirable

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:18 PM
      • Pleasure Is The Guide of Life
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      • October 4, 2023 at 12:18 PM
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    1. Key Citations On Living In The Present

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:15 PM
      • Living In The Present
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      • October 4, 2023 at 12:15 PM
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    1. Key Citations On Hope

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:14 PM
      • Hope For The Future
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:14 PM
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    1. Key Citations On Beneficence

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:13 PM
      • Virtue - Rejection of Absolute Virtue - Virtue As A Means for Pleasure, Not an End in Itself
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:13 PM
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    1. Key Citations On Confidence 2

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM
      • Virtue - Rejection of Absolute Virtue - Virtue As A Means for Pleasure, Not an End in Itself
      • Cassius
      • March 13, 2024 at 10:41 PM
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    3. Don

      March 13, 2024 at 10:41 PM
    1. Key Citations On Honesty and Frank Speech

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM
      • Virtue - Rejection of Absolute Virtue - Virtue As A Means for Pleasure, Not an End in Itself
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:12 PM
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    1. Key Citations On Courage

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:10 PM
      • Virtue - Rejection of Absolute Virtue - Virtue As A Means for Pleasure, Not an End in Itself
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:10 PM
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    1. Key Citations on Justice

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:09 PM
      • Justice
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:09 PM
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    1. Key Citations On Prudence

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:04 PM
      • Virtue - Rejection of Absolute Virtue - Virtue As A Means for Pleasure, Not an End in Itself
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:04 PM
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    1. Key Citations On Atoms, Void, and Emergence 4

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 12:00 PM
      • All Bodies Are Made Of Atoms and Void
      • Cassius
      • February 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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      February 2, 2025 at 3:44 PM
    1. Key Citations - Pleasure Is Present When Pain Is Absent

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 11:57 AM
      • Absence of Pain - By Pleasure We Mean All Experience That Is Not Painful
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 11:57 AM
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    1. Key Citations On Gratitude

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 11:41 AM
      • Gratitude
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      • October 4, 2023 at 11:41 AM
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    1. Key Citations - Only Two Feelings: Pleasure And Pain

      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 9:34 AM
      • Only Two Feelings - Pleasure and Pain - The Term Pleasure Includes Tranquility, Meaningfulness, Katastematic, Kinetic, Etc.
      • Cassius
      • October 4, 2023 at 9:34 AM
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    1. Episode 194 - The Epicurean Arguments In Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 04 16

      • Cassius
      • September 30, 2023 at 11:51 AM
      • The Lucretius Today Podcast
      • Cassius
      • October 3, 2023 at 1:08 PM
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    3. Cassius

      October 3, 2023 at 1:08 PM
    1. Welcome Peter Konstans! 15

      • Cassius
      • September 29, 2023 at 2:50 PM
      • Welcome to Our New Members!
      • Cassius
      • October 2, 2023 at 3:11 PM
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    1. October 4, 2023 - Agenda - Wednesday Night Zoom - Vatican Sayings 32 and 33

      • Cassius
      • September 27, 2023 at 7:45 PM
      • ARCHIVED Studying the Vatican Sayings - Wednesday Night Zoom (Past Event)
      • Cassius
      • September 27, 2023 at 7:45 PM
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    1. For Me Personally, The Most Fundamental Attitudinal Adjustment That Comes From Epicurean Philosophy: "Live Like You Were Dying" 4

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      • Cassius
      • September 26, 2023 at 7:55 AM
      • Death Is Nothing To Us - No Immortal Soul
      • Cassius
      • November 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM
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    3. burninglights

      November 3, 2023 at 1:51 PM
    1. "Cicero' And His Clamorous Silences" - Paper by Javier Aoiz and Marcelo D. Boeri 1

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      • Cassius
      • September 25, 2023 at 9:03 AM
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      • September 25, 2023 at 9:09 AM
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    3. Cassius

      September 25, 2023 at 9:09 AM
    1. Episode 193 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 03 4

      • Cassius
      • September 18, 2023 at 5:51 PM
      • The Lucretius Today Podcast
      • Cassius
      • September 30, 2023 at 5:55 PM
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    3. Cassius

      September 30, 2023 at 5:55 PM
    1. September 27, 2023 Agenda - Wednesday Night Studying the Vatican Sayings - Via Zoom

      • Cassius
      • September 14, 2023 at 7:21 AM
      • ARCHIVED Studying the Vatican Sayings - Wednesday Night Zoom (Past Event)
      • Cassius
      • September 14, 2023 at 7:21 AM
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    1. September 20, 2023 Agenda - Wednesday Night Studying the Vatican Sayings - Via Zoom

      • Cassius
      • September 14, 2023 at 7:21 AM
      • ARCHIVED Studying the Vatican Sayings - Wednesday Night Zoom (Past Event)
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