"Not the needle, nor the thread, the lost decree. Saying nothing, that's enough for me."
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"What if God promised a heaven achieved so easily, and without pain here on earth?" he said.
"Heaven would not seem such a prize. What reason would test man's sincerity and faith? With no purgatory there is no heaven. Then what inexhaustible evil would men engineer? Man would dream up so many ways to extinguish each other, there would not even be an earth. What is achieved without suffering is worthless. What is achieved easily is of no account. Man would be a trickster, playing the game of life with crooked dice and marked card. He would be no better than the beasts we raise. Without all these obstacles we call misfortune, what pleasure would heaven be? No, these misfortunes are proof of God, of his love for mankind. As for what men do to each other, we cannot blame that on our God. We must blame ourselves and do our time in purgatory."
Lucrezia asked him, "but then, what is evil?"
"Power is evil, my child" he said. "And it is our duty to eras that desire for it from the hearts and minds of men. That, the Holy Church can do. But we can never erase the power of society, in society. Therefore we can never erase evil from civilized society. It will always be unjust, it will always be cruel to the common man. It is possible that in five hundred years, men will not cheat and murder each other."
"But it is in the very nature of society that, in order to hold a people together for their God and for their country, a king must hang and burn his subjects in order to bend their will. for mankind is as intractable as nature, and some demons don't fear the holy water."