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Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations

BOOK I
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I cannot conceive these your Gods to have any.

But how does all this face of things arise from atomic corpuscles?
Were there any such atoms (as there are not), they might perhaps impel one another, and be jumbled together in their motion; but they could never be able to impart form, or figure, or color, or animation, so that you by no means demonstrate the immortality of your Deity.
XL.

Let us now inquire into his happiness.

It is certain that without virtue there can be no happiness; but virtue consists in action: now your Deity does nothing; therefore he is void of virtue, and consequently cannot be happy.

What sort of life does he lead?
He has a constant supply, you say, of good things, without any intermixture of bad.


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