So much wrong could religion induce.

...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.

It's easier to avoid the snares of love than to escape once you are in that net whose cords and knots are strong; but even so, enmeshed, entangled, you can still get out unless, poor fool, you stand in your own way.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

It is pleasant, when the sea is high and the winds are dashing the waves about, to watch from the shores the struggles of another.