Teofrasto Frases famosas
“Um orador sem critério é como um cavalo sem freio.”
Fonte: Chalita, Mansour. Os mais belos pensamentos de todos os tempos. 4 Edição. Rio de Janeiro: Assoc. Cultural Internac. Gibran. pág. 76.
“A desconfiança põe-nos de sobreaviso contra todo mundo.”
Variante: A desconfiança põe-nos de sobreaviso contra toda a gente.
Teofrasto: Frases em inglês
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.”
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 5.
“Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.”
Characters, ch. 28 (16); translation from R. C. Jebb and J. E. Sandys (trans.), The Characters of Theophrastus (London: Macmillan, 1909), p. 139.
Characters, ch. 9 (12); translation from R. C. Jebb and J. E. Sandys (trans.), The Characters of Theophrastus (London: Macmillan, 1909), p. 75.
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.