... 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.

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.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

Look at a man in the midst of doubt & danger and you will learn in his hour of adversity what he really is.

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.