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

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

The sea is the source of water and the source of wind; for neither would blasts of wind arise in the clouds and blow out from within them, except for the great sea, nor would the streams of rivers nor the rain-water in the sky exist but for the sea ; but the great sea is the begetter of clouds and winds and rivers.

Men always makes gods in their own image.

If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.

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

For we are all sprung from earth and water