Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

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.

The first-beginnings of things cannot be distinguished by the eye.

There is so much wrong with the world. (tanta stat praedita culpa)

Epicurus ... whose genius surpassed all humankind, extinguished the light of others, as the stars are dimmed by the rising sun.