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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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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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Alcmaeon [of Croton] 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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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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Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

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

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Theophrastus

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Born: 371 BC

Died: 287 BC (aged 84)

Bio: Theophrastus, a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death, he attached himself to Aristotle.

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