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

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

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

One Man's food is another Man's Poison

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.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.