23 Quotes by Theophrastus

Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.

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

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

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.

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.

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

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

Beauty is a mute deception.