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

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

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πᾶν μὲν τὸ δυσέφικτον παρὰ τοῖς πολλοῖς εὐδιάβλητον ἔχει φύσιν

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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.

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