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 power of understanding.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. - Theophrastus
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
- Theophrastus
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. - Theophrastus
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.
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,… - Theophrastus
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,…
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. - Theophrastus
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
Beauty is a mute deception. - Theophrastus
Beauty is a mute deception.
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout. - Theophrastus
The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle. - Theophrastus
An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses. - Theophrastus
Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
Our costliest expenditure is time. - Theophrastus
Our costliest expenditure is time.
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