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An ethical person ought to do more than he's required to do and less than he's allowed to do

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

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As you say of yourself, I too 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.

[Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]
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