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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
Sallust
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Sallust
Ancient Roman Historian
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Gaius Sallustius Crispus
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To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed madness. In battle those who are most afraid are always in most danger but courage is equivalent to rampart.
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It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the Gods and neglected them in one life may in another life be deprived of the knowledge of them altogether. Also those who have worshipped their own kings as gods have deserved as their punishment to lose all knowledge of God.
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