The force that unites the elements to become all things is Love, also called Aphrodite; Love brings together dissimilar elements into a unity, to become a composite thing. Love is the same force that human beings find at work in themselves whenever they feel joy, love and peace. Strife, on the other hand, is the force responsible for the dissolution of the one back into its many, the four elements of which it was composed.

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.

What is lawful is not binding only on some and not binding on others. Lawfulness extends everywhere, through the wide-ruling air and the boundless light of the sky.

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.

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

Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.

What is right may properly be uttered even twice.