Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE)
“What could be more stupid than to attach the dignity of gods to mean and ugly objects, or to grant a place in the company of gods to men already obliterated in death, so that worship of them would consist of nothing but lamentation?”
- From Cicero’s The Nature of the Gods (Book 1, chapter 38), translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997, 1998, 2008.
