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If horses had Gods, they would look like horses.
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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.
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The clear and perfect truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the gods and what I say about all things... for, however perfect what he says may be, yet he does not know it all things are matters of opinion.
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For all things come from earth, and all things end by becoming earth.
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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.
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No man knows distinctly anything, and no man ever will.
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All things that come into being and grow are earth and water.
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Men always makes gods in their own image.
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...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.
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But without effort [God] sets in motion all things by mind and thought.
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This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity
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If God had not made brown honey, men would think figs much sweeter than they do.
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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.
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It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
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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
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If cattle and horses, or lions, had hands...
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Truly the gods have not from the beginning revealed all things to mortals, but by long seeking, mortals discover what is better.
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If oxen and horses and lions could draw and paint, they would delineate the gods in their own image.
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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.
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