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... truth , but when the object of search is the noblest possible , weariness in the search becomes disgraceful . Further , if writing is a pleasure to me , who is so grudging as to drag me away from that occupation ? Or if it tasks my ...
... truth , but when the object of search is the noblest possible , weariness in the search becomes disgraceful . Further , if writing is a pleasure to me , who is so grudging as to drag me away from that occupation ? Or if it tasks my ...
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... truth and not to confound as it were some opponent . Now the tenets of Epicurus concerning pleasure were once carefully advocated by Lucius Torquatus , a gentleman trained in every department of learning , and I replied to him , while ...
... truth and not to confound as it were some opponent . Now the tenets of Epicurus concerning pleasure were once carefully advocated by Lucius Torquatus , a gentleman trained in every department of learning , and I replied to him , while ...
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... truth , all possibility of a criterion of truth and falsehood is destroyed . *** This position is 23 especially strengthened by what nature herself , as he says , adopts and approves , I mean the distinction between pleasure and pain ...
... truth , all possibility of a criterion of truth and falsehood is destroyed . *** This position is 23 especially strengthened by what nature herself , as he says , adopts and approves , I mean the distinction between pleasure and pain ...
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... truth were really as they imagine . For if we were to admit that such actions are inherently and absolutely pleasant , even though we judge nothing by the standard of the body , then virtue and knowledge would be things absolutely ...
... truth were really as they imagine . For if we were to admit that such actions are inherently and absolutely pleasant , even though we judge nothing by the standard of the body , then virtue and knowledge would be things absolutely ...
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... truth and that master - builder , if I may style him so , of the life of happiness . Surely no one recoils from or dislikes or avoids pleasure in itself because it is pleasure , but because great pains come upon those who do not know ...
... truth and that master - builder , if I may style him so , of the life of happiness . Surely no one recoils from or dislikes or avoids pleasure in itself because it is pleasure , but because great pains come upon those who do not know ...
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