Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.
You alone govern the nature of things. Without you nothing emerges into the light of day, without you nothing is joyous or lovely.
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
Continual dropping wears away a stone.
Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.