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

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.

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

Homer and Hesiod attributed to the gods all things which are disreputable and worthy of blame when done by men; and they told of them many lawless deeds, stealing, adultery, and deception of each other.

If oxen and lions had hands and could paint with their hands and produce works of art, as men do, horses would paint the forms of the gods likes horses and oxen like oxen. Each would represent them with bodies according to the bodies of each. So the Ethiopians make their gods black and snub-nosed; the Thracians give theirs red hair and blue eyes.

All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.