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 1 4 |         of virtue? From this, he says, He is happy and uncorrupted,
 2 7 |          is no animal, as Cicero says, except man, which has any
 3 8 |         by anger." ~Now, when he says these things, does he think
 4 8 |      with us? "Farewell to God," says Cicero, "if He is such as
 5 8 |         God? Farewell to Him, he says, that is, let Him depart
 6 10|           They are so minute, he says, that there is no edge of
 7 10|     however, reply as to one who says something. If they are soft
 8 10|       seen and held. "These," he says, "flutter about with restless
 9 10|            Since everything," he says, "is infinite, and nothing
10 10|        are, and which we see. He says that all things are made
11 10|        can they be compacted? He says, From the most minute. There
12 10|           If there is anything," says Chrysippus, "which effects
13 10|          and in his Consolation, says: "No origin of souls can
14 10|         For there is nothing, he says, mixed and compound in souls,
15 11| concealed. "Would to heaven," he says, "that I could as easily
16 11|      Socrates, as he discourses, says that "the form of God ought
17 11|         Plato, in his Book Laws, says: "What God is, ought not
18 13|   Epicurus is done away. God, he says, either wishes to take away
19 15|         Epicurus opposes us, and says: "If there is in God the
20 17|         HIS CARE AND ANGER.~God, says Epicurus, regards nothing;
21 17|        sight? On this account he says He is pure and happy, because
22 17|   eternal and divine law. If, he says, God does harm to any one,
23 17|         of anger. "Anger is," he says, "the desire of avenging
24 17|            Others, as Posidonius says, describe it as the desire
25 17|        greatly from ours; for he says that "anger is the desire
26 18|          acted. For if (as Plato says) no prudent man punishes
27 19|    wicked. There is no need (one says) of hatred; for He once
28 20|        as the not inelegant poet says. It is the end which proves
29 20|        eternal torments. Nay, he says, if God is angry, He ought