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

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.

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

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain.

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.

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

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