Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?" (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)

Wherefore not without cause has one of your own followers asked, "If God is, whence come evil things? If He is not, whence come good?"

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

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