How many evils have flowed from religion.

Assuredly 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.

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

Nothing can be created out of nothing.

The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.