... deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.16, Psychology Press
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