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Again, if the world is destroyed, it must needs either be destroyed according to nature or against nature. Against nature is impossible, for that which is against nature is not stronger than nature. If according to nature, there must be another nature which changes the nature of the world: which does not appear.

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One may call the world a myth, in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden.

Those who wish to hear about the Gods should have been well guided from childhood, and not habituated to foolish beliefs.

To say that God turns away from the evil is like saying that the sun hides himself from the blind.

May these explanations of the myths find favour in the eyes of the Gods themselves and the souls of those who wrote the myths.

The divine itself is without needs, and the worship is paid for our own benefit. The providence of the Gods reaches everywhere and needs only some congruity for its reception.

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