Theophrastus Quotes
- True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.
- Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
- An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.
- Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.
- Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.
- The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.
- We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external…
- Our costliest expenditure is time.
- Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it…
- Beauty is a mute deception.
- One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.
- Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.
- Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.