Ptolemy Quotes

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A man makes no noise over a good deed, but passes on to another as a vine to bear grapes again in season.

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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.

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You will find rest from vain fancies if you perform every act in life as though it were your last.

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Whatever may befall you, it was preordained for you from everlasting.

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Be not careless in deeds, nor confused in words, nor rambling in thought.

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It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

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This Being of mine, whatever it really is, consists of a little flesh, a little breath, and the part which governs.

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All is ephemeral—fame and the famous as well.

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A wrongdoer is often a man who has left some thing undone, not always one who has done something.

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

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In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: "I am rising to a man's work."

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

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Remember that no man loses other life than that which he lives, nor lives other than that which he loses.

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One universe made up of all that is; and one God in it all, and one principle of being, and one law, the reason, shared by all thinking creatures, and one truth.

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Love the little trade which you have learned, and be content with it.

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Very little is needed to make a happy life.

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