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

At one time through love all things come together into one, at another time through strife s hatred, they are borne each of them apart.

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

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.

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

Earth's sweat, the sea.

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