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.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

For we are all sprung from earth and water

Even if a man should chance to speak the most complete truth, yet he himself does not know it; all things are wrapped in appearances

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

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

If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.