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- Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary… — Francis Quarles
- The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- You should rather suppose that those are involved in worthwhile duties who wish to have daily as their closest friends Zeno, Pythagoras,… — Seneca the Younger
- It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. — Diogenes