11.

All those acts which among us men are wicked and shameful
Homer and Hesiod lay to the charge of the blessed immortals -
stealing and lying and wenching and each one cheating the other.

14.

But mortals suppose that gods were born, like them,
that they have clothes and speech and bodies like they do.

16.

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

15.

Now suppose oxen and horses or lions had hands like ours,
or knew how to work with their hands and carve out statues as we do:
horses would make their gods like horses, oxen like oxen,
giving the self-same shapes
in which they themselves had been moulded

23.

One god, greatest among gods and men,
resembling mortals neither in body nor in mind.

24.

All of him sees, all thinks, and all hears.

26/25.

Dwelling in one place forever, moving not at all;
for it would not be fitting for him to go now here, now there.
No, without toil he accomplishes all by the thought of his mind.

38.

If god had not made pale honey, men would consider
figs far sweeter

34.

No man knows, or will ever know, the truth
about the gods and about everthing I speak of:
for even if one chanced to say the whole truth,
one still would not know it; but seeming is wrought over all things.

35.

Let these things be assumed as resembling the truth....