LUCRETIUS

Poet-philosopher of the 1st century BC


He had little time for gods.

Quippe ita formido mortalis continet omnis,
quod multa in terris fieri caeloque tuentur
quorum operum causas nulla ratione videre
possunt ac fieri divino numine rentur. 

There’s no question all mortals are repressed by fear: they see many phenomena on earth and in the sky which they are unable to account for with any rational explanation, so they imagine them to be the work of gods.

 De Rerum Natura i, 151-4

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