'No one.' And now let us offer an alternative to him who denies that there are Gods.

Either he must show that the soul is not the origin of all things, or he must live for the future in the belief that there are Gods.
Next, as to the man who believes in the Gods, but refuses to acknowledge that they take care of human things--let him too have a word of admonition.

'Best of men,' we will say to him, 'some affinity to the Gods leads you to honour them and to believe in them.

But you have heard the happiness of wicked men sung by poets and admired by the world, and this has drawn you away from your natural piety.

Or you have seen the wicked growing old in prosperity, and leaving great offices to their children; or you have watched the tyrant succeeding in his career of crime; and considering all these things you have been led to believe in an irrational way that the Gods take no care of human affairs.