 The Epicurean gods, on Velleius’ telling, live a life of utter tranquility. They have no business to attend to; they simply take pleasure in their own wisdom and virtue, secure in the knowledge that their bliss will be everlasting (1.51). Since they have no troubles, they are not involved in the laborious business of creating or governing the universe, which arises and is sustained by the clustering of atoms in the void; they likewise have no concern with the travails of human life (1.52–54). This does not, however, mean that they are not rightly objects of piety and reverence: we worship the sublimity of their nature (1.56).