All men begin their learning with Homer.

God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.

The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

The Gods did not reveal, from the beginning, all things to us, but in the course of time through seeking we may learn & know things better. But as for certain truth no man knows it, nor shall he know it, neither of the Gods nor yet of all things that I speak. For even if by chance he were to utter The Final Truth, he would himself not know it: for all is but a woven web of guesses.

No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.

In the beginning the gods did not at all reveal all things clearly to mortals, but by searching men in the course of time find them out better.

For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.