The sun comes into being each day from little pieces of fire that are collected.

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

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.

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

For we are all sprung from earth and water

If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.