Only religion can lead to such evil.

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

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

When the supreme violence of a furious wind upon the sea sweeps over the waters the chief admiral of a fleet along with his mighty legions, does he not crave the gods' peace with vows and in his panic seek with prayers the peace of the winds and favouring breezes. Nonetheless, he is caught up in the furious hurricane and driven upon the shoals of death.

[N]ature repairs one thing from another and allows nothing to be born without the aid of another's death.

Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky.

Continual dropping wears away a stone.