How many evils have flowed from religion.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.

Things stand apart so far and differ, that What's food for one is poison for another.

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?

Anything made out of destructible matter Infinite time would have devoured before. But if the atoms that make and replenish the world Have endured through the immense span of the past Their natures are immortal-that is clear. Never can things revert to nothingness!

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.