...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.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.

Nothing comes from nothing.

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

For fools admire and love those things they see hidden in verses turned all upside down, and take for truth what sweetly strokes the ears and comes with sound of phrases fine imbued.

So much wrong could religion induce.