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Middle Ages2 quotes
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. — St. Thomas Aquinas · 1265Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?" — Boethius · 523The Renaissance2 quotes
What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the height of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Providence,
And justify the ways of God to men. — John Milton · 1667Just are the ways of God,
And justifiable to men;
Unless there be who think not God at all. — John Milton · 1671Age of Enlightenment1 quote
If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire · 1759