The Greeks are wrong to recognize coming into being and perishing; for nothing comes into being nor perishes, but is rather compounded or dissolved from things that are. So they would be right to call coming into being composition and perishing dissolution.

All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.