Birth: 371 Bc Death: 287 Bc
Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is,….
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle..
Our costliest expenditure is time..
Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it..
Beauty is a mute deception..
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend..
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural..
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses..
Slovenliness is a lazy and beastly negligence of a man's own person, whereby he becomes so sordid as to be offensive to those about him..
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation..
Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it ….
If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool..
We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under extern….
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout..
Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural..
Alcmaeon was the first to define the difference between man and animals, saying that man differs from the latter in the fact that he alone has the po….
One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer..
The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host..
I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess..