“As you say of yourself, I too am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greece and Rome have left us. [Letter to William Short, 31 October 1819]” GreeceMoral PhilosophyEpicureanismEpicureanSecular EthicsEpicurusSecular MoralityPhilosophy Rome Book:Letters of Thomas Jefferson Source: Letters of Thomas Jefferson