Not even a God would have the right to deal a blow for the unwarlike: the law decrees that to come safe out of battle is for fighting men, not for those that pray. The harvest comes home not for praying but for tilling... we have no right to complain of the ignoble getting the richer harvest if they are the only workers in the fields, or the best.
-Plotinus
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