Tao Te Ching

“Oh, how crafty of religion, I cried out indignantly, to transplant rewards and punishments into a future life in order to comfort cowards and the enslaved and aggrieved, enabling them to bow their necks patiently before their masters, and to endure this earthly life”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco