“It is no piety to show oneself bowing with veiled head towards a stone, nor to be seen frequenting every altar, nor to fall prostrate on the ground, with palms outspread before the shrines of gods, nor deluge altars with streams of blood from beasts, vow piled on vow. True piety is for a man to have the power to contemplate the world with a quiet mind.”

-Lucretius, 1st Century B.C.