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Danh ngôn của Lucretius (Sứ mệnh: 2)

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
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 you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.