Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come… — Boethius
Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?"
In the original Latin
Unde haud iniuria tuorum quidam familiarium quaesiuit: `si quidem deus', inquit, `est, unde mala? Bona uero unde, si non est?'
The Consolation of Philosophy · 523
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Boethius. The Consolation of Philosophy, translated by Victor Watts. Penguin Classics, 1999, bk. 1, poem 4.
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Boethius. De Consolatione Philosophiae [On the Consolation of Philosophy]. 524, bk. 1, poem 4.
