Theophrastus

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

“Life is ruled by fortune, not wisdom.”

“Superstition is a cowardly fear of the gods.”

“Flattery is the treating of a man in a way which is calculated to be pleasant to him, but is not for his good.”

“A boor is a man of such rough and uncouth manners as to be offensive to his associates.”

“We must not be negligent in learning and imitating the good.”

“One's native land is the most beloved of all things.”

“A horse is not known by its saddle and bridle, but by its nature; so a man is not known by his wealth or his rank, but by his character.”

“The shameless man is one who is ready to do or say anything disgraceful.”

“The most useless of all things is to live a life of indolence.”

“Nothing is so dear and precious as time.”

“Chattiness is an incontinence of speech.”

“Irony is a pretending to be worse than you are.”