We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

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.

Since you must admit that there is nothing outside the universe, it can have no limit and is accordingly without end or measure. It makes no odds in which part of it you may take your stand; whatever spot anyone may occupy, the universe stretches away from him just the same in all directions without limit.

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

Such crimes has superstition caused.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.