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Ah, yes, superstition: it would appear to be cowardice in face of the supernatural.

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.

Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.

An orator without judgment is a horse without a bridle.

If you are an ignorant man, you are acting wisely; but if you have had any education, you are behaving like a fool.

Love is the affection of a mind that has nothing better to engage it.

One may define flattery as a base companionship which is most advantageous to the flatterer.

Our costliest expenditure is time.

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.

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

The sound of the flute will cure epilepsyand sciatic gout.

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

Waste of time is the most extravagant and costly of all expenses.