There Is In Superstition A Senseless Fear

What Sweetness Is Left In Life, If You Take Away Friendship? Robbing Life Of Friendship Is Like Robbing The World Of The Sun. A True Friend Is More To Be Esteemed Than Kinsfolk.

He Has No Other Recommendation, Save An Assumed And Crafty Solemnity Of Demeanour.

Great Is Our Admiration Of The Orator Who Speaks With Fluency And Discretion.

Nothing Is More Praiseworthy, Nothing More Suited To A Great And Illustrious Man Than Placability And A Merciful Disposition.

The Following Passage Is One Of Those Cited By Copernicus Himself In His Preface To De Revolutionibus: "the Syracusan Hicetas, As Theophrastus Asserts, Holds The View That The Heaven, Sun, Moon, Stars, And In Short All Of The Things On High Are Stationary, And That Nothing In The World Is In Motion Except The Earth, Which By Revolving And Twisting Round Its Axis With Extreme Velocity Produces All The Same Results As Would Be Produced If The Earth Were Stationary And The Heaven In Motion. . . ."