Dicere podrro hominum causa voluisse parare praeclaram mundi naturam, proptereaque adlaudabile opus divom laudare decere aeternumque putare atque inmortale futurum, nec fas esse, deum quod sit ratione vetusta gentibus humanis fundatum perpetuo aevo, sollicitare suis ulla vi ex sedibus umquam nec verbis vexare et ab imo evertere summa' cetera de genere hoc adfingere et addere, Memmi, desiperest.
To say further that for mens sake they had the will to prepare the glorious structure of the world, and that therefore it is fitting to praise it as an admirable work of the gods; and to think that it will be everlasting and immortal, and that a thing which has by ancient contrivance of the gods been established for the races of mankind to all eternity may not ever lawfully be shaken from its foundations by any force, nor assailed by argument and overthrown from top to bottom; to feign this and other such conceits, one upon another, Memmius, is the act of a fool.
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