There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or by pleasure and pain. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
“I know that I am mortal by nature, and ephemeral; but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as a whole; in position it lies in the middle of the heavens very much like its center; in size and distance it has the ratio of a point to the sphere of the fixed stars; and it has… — Ptolemy Copy Share
Therefore the solid body of the earth is reasonably considered as being the largest relative to those moving against it and as remaining unmoved in any direction by the force of the very small weights, and as it were absorbing their fall. And if it had some one common movement, the same as that of the other weights, it would… — Ptolemy Copy Share
As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also,… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
