5 Quotes by Theophrastus about men


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

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    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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    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.

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    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.

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