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• It is impious to say that evil has its origin from God, because naught contrary is produced by the contrary. Life does… — Saint Basil
• For the impious act begets more after it, like to the parent stock. — Aeschylus
• The habit of arguing in support of atheism, whether it be done from conviction or in pretense, is a wicked and impious… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
• Those who wish to seek out the cause of miracles, and to understand the things of nature as philosophers, and not to… — Baruch Spinoza
• The veneration, wherewith Men are imbued for what they call Nature, has been a discouraging impediment to the Empire of Man over… — Robert Boyle
• If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm
• All who contribute to the overthrow of religion, or to the ruin of kingdoms and commonwealths, all who are foes to letters… — Niccolo Machiavelli
• But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian

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