Appearances are but a glimpse of what is hidden.

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.

The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

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.

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

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