But what if there are no gods, or they don't care about the world? Why would I want to live in a world without gods and without divine care? But there are gods, and they do care for the world. As for things that are truly evil — like vice and wickedness — they have put these in our own power so we can avoid them if we choose. If there were anything else that was truly bad and harmful, they would have given us power over that too.
But if it be so that there be no gods, or that they take no care of the world, why should I desire to live in a world void of gods, and of all divine providence? But gods there be certainly, and they take care for the world; and as for those things which be truly evil, as vice and wickedness, such things they have put in a man's own power, that he might avoid them if he would: and had there been anything besides that had been truly bad and evil, they would have had a care of that also, that a man might have avoided it.