If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would… — St. Thomas Aquinas
If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.
In the original Latin
Si enim omnia mala im- pedirentur , muita bona deessent universo : non enim esset vita leonis^ si non esset occisio animalium ; nec esset patientia martyrum^ si non essel persecutio tyrannorum
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Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1.
Original citation
Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1.
