Mother of Aeneas, pleasure of men and gods. -Aeneadum genetrix, hominum divomque voluptas

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

Long time men lay oppress'd with slavish fear Religion's tyranny did domineer ... At length a mighty one of Greece began To assert the natural liberty of man, By senseless terrors and vain fancies let To slavery. Straight the conquered phantoms fled.

The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone.

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

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

Only religion can lead to such evil.