...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

It is pleasurable, when winds disturb the waves of a great sea, to gaze out from land upon the great trials of another.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

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.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

Only religion can lead to such evil.

Tis pleasant to stand on shore and watch others labouring in a stormy sea.