Tao Te Ching

“When human life laid prostrate on the earth crushed down under the weight of religion, Epicurus found the living source of his soul and passed far beyond the flaming walls of convention finding the wonders of mind, the spirit of the immeasurable universe in turn putting under foot and trampling down on religion.”

— Lucretius 99 – 55 BCE via H. A. J. Munro, Shan Dao
(Titus Carus)
from De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)