If all evil were prevented, much good would be absent from the universe. A lion would cease to live, if there were no slaying of animals; and there would be no patience of martyrs if there were no tyrannical persecution.
Si enim omnia mala im- pedirentur , muita bona deessent universo : non enim esset vita leonis^ si non esset occisio animalium ; nec esset patientia martyrum^ si non essel persecutio tyrannorum
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Original Citation
Saint Thomas Aquinus. Summa Theologica. c. 1274, pt. 1.
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Current Citation
Saint Thomas Aquinus. The Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Provinc. Christian Classics, 1981, pt. 1.
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