There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.

Each man believes only his experience.

[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.

None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.

For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.

Many fires burn below the surface.

Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.