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

The mind like a sick body can be healed and changed by medicine.

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation: not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive from what ills you are free yourself is pleasant.

At this stage you must admit that whatever is seen to be sentient is nevertheless composed of atoms that are insentient. The phenomena open to our observation so not contradict this conclusion or conflict with it. Rather they lead us by the hand and compel us to believe that the animate is born, as I maintain, of the insentient.

So, little by little, time brings out each several thing into view, and reason raises it up into the shores of light.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.