Fear is the mother of all gods.

Fear is the mother of all gods.

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

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the faults that mar it.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

The highest summits and those elevated above the level of other things are mostly blasted by envy as by a thunderbolt.