r/StoicMemes 11d ago

More epicurean than stoic, but still

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u/StoicVirtue 11d ago

"It was Epicurus who said that", you protest. "What business have you got with someone else's property?" Whatever is true is my property. And I shall persist in inflicting Epicurus on you, in order to bring it home to the people who take an oath of allegiance to someone and never afterwards consider what is being said but only who said it, that the things of greatest merit are common property.

- Seneca, Letters from a Stoic, Letter XII