Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

Violence and wrong enclose all who commit them in their meshes and do mostly recoil on him from whom they begin.

Do we not see all humans unaware Of what they want, and always searching everywhere, And changing place, as if to drop the load they bear?

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

What can give us more sure knowledge than our senses? How else can we distinguish between the true and the false?

To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.