Beauty Is The Flower Of Virtue.

Water And Our Necessary Food Are The Only Things That Wise Men Must Fight For.

It Is Circumstance And Proper Measure That Give An Action Its Character, And Make It Either Good Or Bad.

It Is Part Of A Good Man To Do Great And Noble Deeds, Though He Risk Everything.

But For The Sake Of Some Little Mouthful Of Flesh We Deprive A Soul Of The Sun And Light, And Of That Proportion Of Life And Time It Had Been Born Into The World To Enjoy.

This Excerpt Is Presented As Reproduced By Copernicus In The Preface To De Revolutionibus: "some Think That The Earth Remains At Rest. But Philolaus The Pythagorean Believes That, Like The Sun And Moon, It Revolves Around The Fire In An Oblique Circle. Heraclides Of Pontus And Ecphantus The Pythagorean Make The Earth Move, Not In A Progressive Motion, But Like A Wheel In Rotation From West To East Around Its Own Center."