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 ….

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

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 within th….

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 a….

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,….

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 fee….

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

If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also, if the earth were flat ….

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 earth I stand; I touch the ….

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

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

I often prefer the shapes within the raw materials to ‘do their thing’, as this makes it movre interesting for me. Sometimes a piece of hubcap fits i….

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..