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    1. Would You Rather Live For A Week As (1) Epicurus During the Last Week of His Life or (2) An Anonymous Shepherd Laying In The Grass In The Summertime With No Pain At All? 104

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    1. DeWitt on Epicurus' Criticism of Leucippus (and Democritus)

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    1. Cicero Attributing To Epicurus The View That Virtuous Action Is Itself Pleasurable 9

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    1. Episode 191 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 02 21

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    1. Cicero's Argument That Epicureans Do Not Esteem Mental Pleasures

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    1. What Is The Relationship Between Thoughts or Other Mental Operations And "Images" In Epicurus? 1

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    1. Thomas More and his "Utopia" 4

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    1. Bruno - "On The Infinite Universe And Worlds" 4

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    1. Gassendi's Engish Version of Life of Epicurus - Thomas Stanley Edition 3

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    1. Episode 190 - Cicero's On Ends - Book One - Part 01 12

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    1. Topical Outline of Lucretius

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    1. Welcome Asclepiades ! 5

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    1. Comparing "Pleasure = Absence of Pain" to "Body = Absence of Void;" A Cite to Lucretius 1:503 6

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    1. References from Lucretius For Proposition That All That Is Formed of Atoms Returns To Atoms

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    1. Upcoming Series: The Lucretius Today Podcast Reviews And Responds To Books One And Two of Cicero's On Ends

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    1. NeoPlatonism Basics Relevant to the Study of Epicurus 8

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    1. PD08 - Best Translation of PD08 To Feature At EpicureanFriends.com 2

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    1. August 30, 2023 - Wednesday Night Zoom - Vatican Sayings 24 and 25

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    1. VS23 - Comparison with Aristotle's Views On Friendship

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    1. General Bio of Celsus and the Possibility that the Celsus Who Wrote "The True Word" was not the Celsus who was friend of Lucian

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    1. Episode 189 - "Epicurus And His Philosophy" Part 41 - Chapter 15 - Extension, Submergence, & Revival 04 12

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