Frasi di Teofrasto
Teofrasto
Data di nascita: 371 a.C.
Data di morte: 287 a.C.
Altri nomi: Theofrastos z Lebosu
Teofrasto è stato un filosofo e botanico greco antico.
Fu discepolo di Aristotele a cui succedette come scolarca nella direzione del Liceo nel 322 a.C.. Wikipedia
Frasi Teofrasto
„Il tempo è la cosa più preziosa che un uomo possa spendere.“
citato in Diogene Laerzio, Vite dei filosofi
„If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.“
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".
Originale: (el) Εἰ μὲν ἀμαθὴς εἶ, φρονίμως ποιεῖς, εἰ δὲ πεπαίδευσαι, ἀφρόνως.
„Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.“
Diogenes Laërtius, Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 5.
Originale: (el) Συνεχές τε … πολυτελὲς ἀνάλωμα εἶναι τὸν χρόνον.
„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.“
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.
Originale: (el) Ἐπισκήπτειν μὲν ἔχειν οὐδέν, πλὴν ὅτι πολλὰ τῶν ἡδέων ὁ βίος διὰ τὴν δόξαν καταλαζονεύεται. Ἡμεῖς γὰρ ὁπότ' ἀρχόμεθα ζῆν, τότ' ἀποθνῄσκομεν. Οὐδὲν οὖν ἀλυσιτελέστερόν ἐστι φιλοδοξίας.
„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.
„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.“
Characters, ch. 9 (12); translation from R. C. Jebb and J. E. Sandys (trans.), The Characters of Theophrastus (London: Macmillan, 1909), p. 75.
