The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.
LucretiusIt is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.
LucretiusAssuredly whatsoever things are fabled to exist in deep Acheron, these all exist in this life. There is no wretched Tantalus, fearing the great rock that hangs over him in the air and frozen with vain terror. Rather, it is in this life that fear of the gods oppresses mortals without cause, and the rock they fear is any that chance may bring.
Lucretius