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Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
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Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
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If God listened to the prayers of men, all men would quickly have perished: for they are forever praying for evil against one another.
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The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.
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Necessity is an evil but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.
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