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Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")

Very Bad Wizards

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What if the Ills I Suffer Arise From Malice?

"I like it because he is in this dialogue forum showing, he's showing not telling that reasoning can't stop you from feeling the misery. Your sorrow is fruitless and will not change the course of destiny." "You should always have before your eyes death, disease, poverty, blindness, exile, Calum, the an infamy, as ills," says Cicero. 'If by close and intense meditation, we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures'

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