I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines …

Thomas Jefferson
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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us. ✨ The Real Thomas Jefferson.
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