Arnobius

“ Him, and weaken the force of His greatness; and so far from His being believed to be their author, whoever imagines that man is sprung from Him is guilty of blasphemous impiety, man, a being miserable and wretched, who is sorry that he exists, hates and laments his state, and understands that he was produced for no other reason than lest evils should not have something [7] through which to spread themselves, and that there might always be wretched ones by whose agonies some unseen and cruel power, [8] adverse to men, should be gratified. ”