But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a ha — Voltaire, Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster
But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a ha — Voltaire, Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster
But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a ha — Voltaire, Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster
But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a ha — Voltaire, Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster
But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a ha — Voltaire, Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster
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But how conceive a God supremely good/ Who heaps his favours on the sons he loves,/ Yet scatters evil with as large a hand?[Written after an earthquake in Lisbon killed over 15,000 people]

— Voltaire, Poem Upon the Lisbon Disaster
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