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I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies I no longer touch earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia, food of the gods.

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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 through pleasure and pain.

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The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.

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As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.

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We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.

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Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

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The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has no motion from place to place.

Ptolemy

Ptolemy

Ptolemy

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Born: 100

Died: 160 (aged 60)

Bio: Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Egyptian writer, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

Known for:

Almagest
Geography (150 AD)
Tetrabiblos
Die Harmonielehre des Klaudios Ptolemaios

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