Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

Yet a little while, and (the happy hour) will be over, nor ever more shall we be able to recall it.

There is nothing that exists so great or marvelous that over time mankind does not admire it less and less.

Fear was the first thing on Earth to create gods.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

Those things that are in the light we behold from darkness.