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Theophrasztosz idézetek

„Az idő a legértékesebb dolog, amit az ember elkölthet.”

Theophrasztosz

Emberek , Idő

Theophrasztosz: Idézetek angolul

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

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Theophrastus

Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius; translation from C. D. Yonge (trans.), The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), p. 196.
Said "when a man preserved a strict silence during the whole of a banquet".

“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”

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Theophrastus

Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 5.

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

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Theophrastus

Characters, ch. 28 (16); translation from R. C. Jebb and J. E. Sandys (trans.), The Characters of Theophrastus (London: Macmillan, 1909), p. 139.

“The Unseasonable man is one who will go up to a busy person, and open his heart to him. He will serenade his mistress when she has a fever. He will address himself to a man who has been cast in a surety-suit, and request him to become his security. He will come to give evidence when the trial is over.”

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Theophrastus

Characters, ch. 9 (12); translation from R. C. Jebb and J. E. Sandys (trans.), The Characters of Theophrastus (London: Macmillan, 1909), p. 75.

“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.”

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Theophrastus

Quoted by Diogenes Laërtius; translation from C. D. Yonge (trans.), The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (London: H. G. Bohn, 1853), p. 196.
His dying words.