Theophrastus Quotes

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

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

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, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

Beauty is a mute deception.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

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.

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Our costliest expenditure is time.

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.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

The man of petty ambition if invited to dinner will be eager to be set next his host.

Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.