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Principal Doctrine 23

XXIII "If you fight against all sensations, you will have no standard by which to judge even those of them which you say are false." (Epicurus, Principal Doctrine 23)

Translated by Cyril Bailey (1926)

Philosopher in Meditation by Rembrandt (1632)

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