After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his … - William Benton Clulow

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William Benton Clulow

After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?

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Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.

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The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

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There is such a delusion as evinces itself in cool vehemence; and it is the most dangerous of all expressions of fanaticism.

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