Top 7 Ptolemy Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.”

— Ptolemy

2. “Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”

— Ptolemy

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

— Ptolemy

4. “It is clearly evident that most events of a widespread nature draw their causes from the enveloping heavens.”

— Ptolemy

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

— Ptolemy

6. “Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.”

— Ptolemy

7. “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

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