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

God is one, supreme among gods and men, and not like mortals in body or in mind.The whole [of god] sees, the whole perceives, the whole hears. But without effort he sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.

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

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

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.

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.