“ What is food to one man is bitter poison to others. ”
The drops of rain make a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
~ Lucretius
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.
So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.
