Blessed is he who has acquired a wealth of divine wisdom, but miserable he in whom there rests a dim opinion concerning the gods.
What is right may properly be uttered even twice.
Having glimpsed a small part of life, men rise up and disappear as smoke, knowing only what each one has learned.
None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man, it has always been.
[On the volcano.] And many a fire there burns beneath the ground.
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.