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.

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

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 we are all sprung from earth and water

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.

All men begin their learning with Homer.

The Ethiopians say that their gods are snub-nosed and black the Thracians that theirs have light blue eyes and red hair.