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    2. Episode 284 - In Dealing With Pain, Does Practice Make Perfect? Or Does Practice Make For A Happy Life? 1

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    2. Episode 278 - Two Opposite Views On When We Might Be Better Off Dead 4

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The Universe As Infinite In SpaceThe Significance of "Images"Agency / Free Will
The Universe As Having No Center Friendship in Epicurean Philosophy
The Impossibility of Infinite Divisibility Justice in Epicurean Philosophy
Epicurean Lifestyle and Self-Improvement

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