| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - He got a bad name for vicious overindulgence, whoring and feasting???as Stephen Greenblatt tells it in The Swerve, the Christian fathers saw his philosophy as a ???noxious threat??? (101)???but in fact he believed that only moderate pleasures were truly reliable in the long run. (Indeed, Seneca reported that Epicurus would offer gruel and water to guests, since peace of mind is the truest pleasure
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