How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

Nothing comes from nothing.

Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches; for never is there any lack of a little.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

How many evils have flowed from religion.