The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. (Claudius Ptolemaeus
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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 PtolemaeusPtolemy)
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men. (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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There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain. (Claudius Ptolemaeus
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