Yet this error has so much prevailed that even pernicious things have not only the title of divinity ascribed to them, but have also sacrifices offered to them; for Fever has a temple on the Palatine hill, and Orbona another near that of the Lares, and we see on the Esquiline hill an altar consecrated to Ill-fortune.

Let all such errors be banished from philosophy, if we would advance, in our dispute concerning the immortal Gods, nothing unworthy of immortal beings.

I know myself what I ought to believe; which is far different from what you have said.

You take Neptune for an intelligence pervading the sea.
You have the same opinion of Ceres with regard to the earth.

I cannot, I own, find out, or in the least conjecture, what that intelligence of the sea or the earth is.