Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Ptolemy
Ptolemy -
Tetrabiblos
4 Sourced Quotes
View all Ptolemy Quotes
Source
Report...
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.
Ptolemy
Source
Report...
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
Ptolemy
Source
Report...
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.
Ptolemy
Source
Report...
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
Ptolemy
Quote of the day
The difference between burlesque and the newspapers is that the former never pretended to be performing a public service by exposure.
I. F. Stone
Ptolemy
Creative Commons
Born:
100
Died:
160
(aged 60)
More about Ptolemy...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes
