D*****r
发帖数: 6791 | 1 Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a
vindictive temper.
What griefs they hatch for themselves,
what festering sores for us,
what tears for our prosperity!
This is not piety,
this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image;
this bustling to every altar;
this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before
the shrines of the gods;
this deluging of vow on vow.
True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet
mind. |
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