5 Ptolemy Quotes

Ptolemy presents grand thoughts on effort, lifespan and the link between fortune and honor.

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.
#1
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
#2
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
#3
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.
#4
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.
#5

Ptolemy quotes