I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.

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• Thomas Jefferson:

  Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

• Thomas Jefferson:

  Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

• Thomas Jefferson:

  Never spend your money before you have earned it.

• Thomas Jefferson:

  I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

• Thomas Jefferson:

  Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolis

• Thomas Jefferson:

  The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

• Thomas Jefferson:

  Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.

• Thomas Jefferson:

  I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

• Thomas Jefferson:

  If God is just, I tremble for my country.

• Thomas Jefferson:

  If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should ha