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Ptolemy
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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.”
Ptolemy (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In some of the manuscripts, the books begins with this epigram (Owen Gingerich, The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p. 55).
“We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.”
Ptolemy (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“πᾶν μὲν τὸ δυσέφικτον παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς εὐδιάβλητον ἔχει φύσιν”
Ptolemy (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The length of lifetakes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.”
Ptolemy (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.”
Ptolemy (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (100–170) said by 170 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source