Ptolemy Quotes

2nd-century Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer

Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος; c. 100 – c. 170), known in English as Ptolemy, was an ancient Greek geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who probably lived and worked in Alexandria, off the coast of Egypt.

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Native Name: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος

Alternative Names: Claudius Ptolemaeus • Claudius Ptolemeus • Claudius Ptolemy • Klaudios Ptolemaios

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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.

πᾶν μὲν τὸ δυσέφικτον παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς εὐδιάβλητον ἔχει φύσιν

The length of lifetakes 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.

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

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.

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