The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.
The forces of rotation caused red hot masses of stones to be torn away from the Earth and to be thrown into the ether, and this is the origin of the stars.
It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.
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.