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

“The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,All things to us, but in the course of timeThrough seeking we may learn and know things better.But as for certain truth, no man has known it,Nor shall he know it,neither of the godsNor yet of all the things of which I speak.For even if by chance he were to utterThe final truth, he would himself not know it:For all is but a woven web of guesses”

“Men always makes gods in their own image.”

“The Ethiops say that their gods are flat-nosed and black,While the Thracians say that theirs have blue eyes and red hair.Yet if cattle or horses or lions had hands and could draw,And could sculpt like men, then the horses would draw their godsLike horses, and cattle like cattle; and each they would shapeBodies of gods in the likeness, each kind, of their own.”

“One must be a sage to recognize a sage.”

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

“All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.”