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340:. The life of an officer did not agree with him; he seems not to have integrated particularly well and he drank excessively, getting into trouble with his superiors. His inebriation was put down to
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attempts, his persistence paid off and he enlisted in the
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Epicurus's Morals: collected and faithfully
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