The Mass Of Mankind Are Evidently Slavish

Plato Is My Friend, But Truth Is A Better Friend.

All Flatterers Are Mercenary, And All Low-minded Men Are Flatterers.

Greed Has No Boundaries

We Have Divided The Virtues Of The Soul Into Two Groups, The Virtues Of The Character And The Virtues Of The Intellect.

It Is Clear, Then, That The Earth Must Be At The Centre And Immovable, Not Only For The Reasons Already Given, But Also Because Heavy Bodies Forcibly Thrown Quite Straight Upward Return To The Point From Which They Started, Even If They Are Thrown To An Infinite Distance. From These Considerations Then It Is Clear That The Earth Does Not Move And Does Not Lie Elsewhere Than At The Centre.