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  2. Dystheism - Wikipedia

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    Dystheism as a concept, although often not labeled as such, has been referred to in many aspects of popular culture.As stated before, related ideas date back many decades, with the Victorian era figure Algernon Charles Swinburne writing in his work Anactoria about the ancient Greek poet Sappho and her lover Anactoria in explicitly dystheistic imagery that includes cannibalism and sadomasochism.

  3. Epicurean paradox - Wikipedia

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    Epicurus was not an atheist, although he rejected the idea of a god concerned with human affairs; followers of Epicureanism denied the idea that there was no god. While the conception of a supreme, happy and blessed god was the most popular during his time, Epicurus rejected such a notion, as he considered it too heavy a burden for a god to have to worry about all the problems in the world.

  4. The road to hell is paved with good intentions - Wikipedia

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    The exact origin of this proverb is unknown and several variations exist. The first full version of the phrase appeared in an 1811 English version of one of Johann Jacob Rambach's books, "The road to hell is paved with good resolutions", a translation of his 1730 German text Der Weg zur Höllen sey mit lauter gutem Vorsatz gepflastert.

  5. No good deed goes unpunished - Wikipedia

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    Conventional moral wisdom holds that evil deeds are punished by divine providence and good deeds are rewarded by divine providence: [1] For as punishment is to the evil act, so is reward to a good act. Now no evil deed is unpunished, by God the just judge. Therefore no good deed is unrewarded, and so every good deed merits some good. [a]

  6. List of Latin phrases (M) - Wikipedia

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    the more common an evil is, the worse it is: manibus date lilia plenis: give lilies with full hands: A phrase from Virgil's Aeneid, VI.883, mourning the death of Marcellus, Augustus' nephew. Quoted by Dante as he leaves Virgil in Purgatory, XXX.21, echoed by Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass III, 6. manu forte

  7. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    Most people enter military service “with the fundamental sense that they are good people and that they are doing this for good purposes, on the side of freedom and country and God,” said Dr. Wayne Jonas, a military physician for 24 years and president and CEO of the Samueli Institute, a non-profit health research organization.

  8. Epicurus - Wikipedia

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    Epicurus was a hedonist, meaning he taught that what is pleasurable is morally good and what is painful is morally evil. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] [ 64 ] [ 7 ] He idiosyncratically defined "pleasure" as the absence of suffering [ 63 ] [ 7 ] and taught that all humans should seek to attain the state of ataraxia , meaning "untroubledness", a state in which ...

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