When one has the power to do or experience what is not for their good, impotence is understood in the word power
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If it is true that...
Rest is the state of doing nothing 0 0 2and
When one has the power to do or experience what is not for their good, impotence is understood in the word power 0 0 2and
The more one possesses this power, the more powerful are adversity and perversity against them 0 0 2Then it must be true that...
God is omnipotent and nothing has power against him 1 0 2Mentions
Anselm of Canterbury/Proslogium
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