Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.

Forbear to spew out reason from your mind, but rather ponder everything with keen judgment; and if it seems true, own yourself vanquished, but, if it is false, gird up your loins to fight.

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

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.

How many evils have flowed from religion.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.