All things were together, infinite both in number and in smallness; for the small too was infinite.

The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens.

The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock.

It is not I who have lost the Athenians, but the Athenians who have lost me.