Petty distractions at home, wars abroad: sometimes fear, sometimes numbness, or lazy stupor. This is your daily slavery. Little by little, if you don't pay attention, those sacred principles will fade from your mind.
Toys and fooleries at home, wars abroad: sometimes terror, sometimes torpor, or stupid sloth: this is thy daily slavery. By little and little, if thou doest not better look to it, those sacred dogmata will be blotted out of thy mind.
To better remember these principles we have talked about, it helps to think of the Gods often. Remember this: what they want from us rational beings is not flattery with pretty words and fake devotion. They want us to become like them. Just as all natural creatures do what they are made to do — the fig tree bears fruit, the dog is loyal, the bee makes honey — humans should do what belongs to human nature.
Now for the better remembrance of those names that we have spoken of, thou shalt find it a very good help, to remember the Gods as often as may be: and that, the thing which they require at our hands of as many of us, as are by nature reasonable creation is not that with fair words, and outward show of piety and devotion we should flatter them, but that we should become like unto them: and that as all other natural creatures, the fig tree for example; the dog the bee: both do, all of them, and apply themselves unto that which by their natural constitution, is proper unto them; so man likewise should do that, which by his nature, as he is a man, belongs unto him.