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

If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...

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

All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.

If cows and horses had hands and could draw, cows would draw gods that look like cows and horses would draw gods that look like horses.

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

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.