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

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Why shed tears that you must die? For if your past life has been one of enjoyment, and if all your pleasures have not passed through your mind, as through a sieve, and vanished, leaving not a rack behind, why then do you not, like a thankful guest, rise cheerfully from life's feast, and with a quiet mind go take your rest.

Fear in sooth holds so in check all mortals, becasue thay see many operations go on in earth and heaven, the causes of which they can in no way understand, believing them therefore to be done by power divine. for these reasons when we shall have seen that nothing can be produced from nothing, we shall then more correctly ascertain that which we are seeking, both the elements out of which every thing can be produced and the manner in which every thing can be produced in which all things are done without the hands of the gods.

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

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

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