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... wisdom , we are not only to acquire it , but to reap enjoyment from it ; if on the other hand our task is hard , still not only is discovery the sole limit to the exploration of truth , but when the object of search is the noblest ...
... wisdom , we are not only to acquire it , but to reap enjoyment from it ; if on the other hand our task is hard , still not only is discovery the sole limit to the exploration of truth , but when the object of search is the noblest ...
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... wisdom or any knowledge of the tenets of your school ever maintain such a position by such arguments . And when the question is asked , as it often is , why Epicureans are so numerous , I answer that there are no doubt other motives ...
... wisdom or any knowledge of the tenets of your school ever maintain such a position by such arguments . And when the question is asked , as it often is , why Epicureans are so numerous , I answer that there are no doubt other motives ...
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... wisdom , that she may remove from us all alarms and passions , and stripping us of our heedless confidence in all false imaginations , may offer herself as our surest guide to pleasure . Wisdom indeed is alone able to drive sadness from ...
... wisdom , that she may remove from us all alarms and passions , and stripping us of our heedless confidence in all false imaginations , may offer herself as our surest guide to pleasure . Wisdom indeed is alone able to drive sadness from ...
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... wisdom alone can redeem us from the violence of our lusts and from the menace of our fears , and alone can teach us to endure humbly even the outrages of fortune , and alone can guide us into every path which leads to peace and calm ...
... wisdom alone can redeem us from the violence of our lusts and from the menace of our fears , and alone can teach us to endure humbly even the outrages of fortune , and alone can guide us into every path which leads to peace and calm ...
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... wisdom , temperance and courage to be linked with pleasure , so that they cannot possibly by any means be sundered or severed from it , so we must deem of justice , which not only never injures any person , but on the contrary always ...
... wisdom , temperance and courage to be linked with pleasure , so that they cannot possibly by any means be sundered or severed from it , so we must deem of justice , which not only never injures any person , but on the contrary always ...
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