Bailey prints the sage’s refusal of political entanglement even in civic emergency language
Bailey 1926 reprints sayings in which the sage avoids the prison of the many and does not make salvation depend on holding office. In the causal graph this event weakens Humanitarian Access, a driver that strengthens People Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC) — an improving welfare path.
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Bailey 1926 reprints sayings in which the sage avoids the prison of the many and does not make salvation depend on holding office. In a famine or assault, that counsel can be read as a duty not to staff relief. The dated book is Oxford’s.
Context
Friendship inside the school is intense. Aid outside the compact is thinner.
Epicurus is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.
Why it matters
A school that will not hold office can also fail to hold a granary key. Keep the lag and the limit.
Keep the lag and the limit.
Who was responsible
Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.
Epicurus
PersonDirect responsibility
responsibility level 0.24 · verified
Garden founder as named in later editions and finds. Printers, excavators, and editors publish the instrument.
What changed
Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.
- FactBailey prints the sage’s refusal of political entanglement even in civic emergency language
- weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 January 1926 · verified
A school that will not hold office can also fail to hold a granary key. Keep the lag and the limit.
Strengthens · Relationship strength 0.15 (weight 0.3 × strength 0.5)
Observed
69M people (stock, end-of-year) · 28M above the normal line (2025)
Worse than normal3 readings, 2023–2025: rose from 68M people (stock, end-of-year) to 69M people (stock, end-of-year).
Above normal = worse
Evidence
The sources behind this fact and its verification state.
- 1.Bailey, Epicurus: The Extant Remains (1926) — HathiTrust recordHathiTrust / Clarendon Press · High credibility · verified
- 2.Diogenes Laertius, Lives, Loeb / Hicks vol. 2Internet Archive / Loeb Classical Library scan · High credibility · verified
Causal path
How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.
- ActorEpicurus
- contributed toFactBailey prints the sage’s refusal of political entanglement even in civic emergency language
- weakensDriverHumanitarian Access
- strengthensIndicatorPeople Internally Displaced by Conflict and Violence (IDMC)
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Factrail. (2026). Bailey prints the sage’s refusal of political entanglement even in civic emergency language. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/ep-quietism-no-aid
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Accessed 15 October 2026.
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