"I shall listen with great pleasure, for I too am not one to despise myths, and I am far from rejecting those that hav…"

"To myself grant for the fruit of my devotion to thee — Truth in belief concerning the gods, the attainment of perfect…"

"Set a strong watch upon yourself: reverence us and us alone, and of men him that is like us and none other. You see w…"

"I think he who knows himself will know accurately, not the opinion of others about him, but what he is in reality… he…"

"I have observed that even the barbarians across the Rhine sing savage songs composed in language not unlike the croak…"

"Suppose that I and Athene, at the behest of Zeus", said Helios, "were to make you steward of all these in the room of…"

"Can anyone be proved innocent, if it be enough to have accused him?"

"Nature loves to hide her secrets, and she does not suffer the hidden truth about the essential nature of the gods to …"

"I had imagined that the prelates of the Galilaeans were under greater obligations to me than to my predecessor. For i…"

"Are you not aware that all offerings whether great or small that are brought to the gods with piety have equal value,…"