Ptolemy Quotes

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

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#2. Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment
I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven,
Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator,
And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

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#3. There's an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials ... I come across many things which have been abandoned and find something more in them than their intrinsic worthlessness.

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

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#5. Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.

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#6. 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.

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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 the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia

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

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#10. It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.

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