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CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY'S One Hundred Sayings, or the Fruit of his Books. 1. From You, and from science. For it is impossible for one who is knowledgeable to pronounce the particular forms of things, just as the senses do not perceive a particular form, but rather a certain general form of a sensible thing. It is necessary for one treating these matters to use a conjecture of things, for only those inspired by the divine predict particulars. 2. When he who consults will better examine himself, there will be no difference of things between that and his form. 3. He who is fit for any particular matter will surely have a star of this kind of signification very powerful in his birth chart. 4. A soul fit for the knowledge of truth attains more than one who has exercised himself in science in the highest manner. 5. He who is knowledgeable can avert many effects of the stars when he knows their nature and prepares himself before their occurrence. 6. The election of days and hours is beneficial when the time is well established from the birth chart. For if it is contrary, it will by no means be profitable, although it may perhaps look toward a good outcome. 7. One cannot perceive the mixtures of the stars unless he has first learned the natural differences and mixtures. 8. A wise soul contributes to the celestial operation, just as an excellent farmer contributes to nature by plowing and purging.