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 1 1 |     blames the very fact of their existence—he may very likely be right.
 2 6 |           which had previously no existence, and also olives, and the
 3 6 |       fathers as the beginning of existence to every child, whether
 4 8 |    disproven by the fact of their existence among you, still even in
 5 10|          some of us deny the very existence of the Gods, while others,
 6 10| persuasion to us, and show us the existence of Gods, if not in a better
 7 10|         difficulty in proving the existence of the Gods?~Athenian. How
 8 10|           furnish proofs of their existence; and also there is the fact
 9 10|           you and I argue for the existence of the Gods, and produce
10 10|          called upon to prove the existence of the Gods? Who can avoid
11 10|         firmly convinced of their existence; who likewise see and hear
12 10|        could be no doubt of their existence, and no suspicion of their
13 10|         no suspicion of their non–existence; when men, knowing all these
14 10|          proving to them the very existence of the Gods? Yet the attempt
15 10|     principles of justice have no existence at all in nature, but that
16 10|        for any vindication of the existence of the Gods—but seeing that
17 10|        demonstration of their own existence. And so holding fast to
18 10|          when at rest has it real existence, but when passing into another
19 10|           place and mode of their existence;—and will any one who admits
20 10|           has hitherto denied the existence of the Gods, and leave him.~
21 10|        him who utterly denied the existence of the Gods. And do you,
22 10|         yet having once come into existence, were indestructible (for
23 10|           sufficiently proved the existence of the Gods, and that they
24 11|       possible never to come into existence, or if existing among us
25 12|         not believe at all in the existence of the Gods, and others
26 12|        generation gives perpetual existence; the other was an argument