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Sunday, October 27, 2019
Gratitude
Epicurus, fragment 469 Usener (tr. Brad Inwood and Lloyd P. Gerson):
I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary
easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary.