/lit/ - Literature

>>23315650
>As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing every thing rational in moral philosophy which Greece & Rome have left us. Epictetus indeed has given us what was good of the Stoics; all beyond, of their dogmas, being hypocrisy and grimace. their great crime was in their calumnies of Epicurus and misrepresentations of his doctrines: in which we lament to see the candid character of Cicero engaging as an accomplice. the merit of his philosophy is in the beauties of his style. diffuse, vapid, rhetorical, but enchanting. his prototype Plato, eloquent as himself, dealing out mysticisms incomprehensible to the human mind, has been deified by certain sects usurping the name of Christians; because, in his foggy conceptions, they found a basis of impenetrable darkness whereon to rear fabrications as delirious, of their own invention.
http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-15-02-0141-0001
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>>23315624
>"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
-Thomas Jefferson (Letter - from Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 11 April 1823)
>"The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
-Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack)
>”This would be the best of all possible Worlds, if there were no Religion in it"
-John Adams (Letter - from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, 19 April 1817)

I want to read more about Epictetus and Chrisippus. Which books do I start reading if I was to start?

>Deal with it.

Stoicism in general.