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

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

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

- Theophrastus

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.

- Theophrastus

Beauty is a mute deception.

- Theophrastus

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

- Theophrastus

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

- Theophrastus

Our costliest expenditure is time.

- Theophrastus