I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods. (Claudius Ptolemaeus
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As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. (Claudius Ptolemaeus
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