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

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

Too often in time past, religion has brought forth criminal and shameful actions... How many evils has religion caused?

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.

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.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.