Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
Gently touching with the charm of poetry.
Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.
If anyone decided to call the sea Neptune, and corn Ceres, and to misapply the name of Bacchus rather than to give liquor its right name, so be it; and let him dub the round world "Mother of the Gods" so long as he is careful not really to infest his mind with base superstitions.
How many evils have flowed from religion.