Only religion can lead to such evil.

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.

The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused.

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

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.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.