Ethiopians imagine their gods as black and snub-nosed; Thracians blue-eyed and red-haired. But if horses or lions had hands, or could draw and fashion works as men do, horses would draw the gods shaped like horses and lions like lions, making the gods resemble themselves.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

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.

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.

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...