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Henri Pruniéres commenting on the music of Claude Debussy: He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the wavessubleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting. Achille-Claude Debussy		Thursday Nov 21, 2024
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As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul. Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

Quote Author: Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)

	Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy)
	(100-178) Tetrabiblos.

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

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.

The length of life takes 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.

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.