Igitur si statuas et imagines frigidas mortuorum suorum simillimas non adoramus, quas milvi et mures et araneae intellegunt, nonne laudem magis quam poenam merebatur repudium agniti erroris? Possumus enim videri laedere eos quos certi sumus omnino non esse? Quod non est, nihil ab ullo patitur, quia non est.
So, if we do not adore statues and images, cold as their own dead men, and just like them,'statues which the kites, the mice, the spidersb quite comprehend'should not praise rather than punishment have been the reward for repudiating recognized error? For can we really be supposed to injure those who we are certain do not exist at all? What is non-existent suffers no injury from anybody, because it does not exist.
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