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.

Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.

The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things...; for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it; all things are matters of opinion.

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

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.