Pierre Hadot (1922–2010) French historian and philosopher
trans. Michael Chase, p. 272
La Philosophie comme manière de vivre (2001)
“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurian. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us.”
Letter to William Short (31 October 1819)
1810s
Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson
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