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Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
Epicurus
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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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My garden does not whet the appetite it satisfies it. It does not provoke thirst through heedless indulgence, but slakes it by proffering its natural remedy. Amid such pleasures as these have I grown old.
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