Ptolemy

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”