Приписывается: Epicurus
«Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?»
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Этого нет в трудах: Epicurus
The so-called "Epicurean paradox" appears in no surviving text of Epicurus. Its source is the Christian apologist Lactantius (On the Anger of God 13, c. 314), who attributes it to Epicurus in order to refute it; many scholars think it comes from the sceptical Academy (Carneades) rather than the Garden, and the modern question form is owed mainly to Hume.
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Подлинные слова: Epicurus
«Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search thereof when he is grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.»
Carta a Meneceo, en Diógenes Laercio X 122. Griego: Diógenes Laercio X, ed. de Wikisource griega; inglés: R. D. Hicks (Loeb, 1925, dominio público); español: traducción propia.
«When we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.»
Carta a Meneceo, en Diógenes Laercio X 125. Griego: Diógenes Laercio X, ed. de Wikisource griega; inglés: R. D. Hicks (Loeb, 1925, dominio público); español: traducción propia.
«Death is nothing to us; for the body, when it has been resolved into its elements, has no feeling, and that which has no feeling is nothing to us.»
Máxima capital II, en Diógenes Laercio X 139. Griego: Diógenes Laercio X, ed. de Wikisource griega; inglés: R. D. Hicks (Loeb, 1925, dominio público); español: traducción propia.