Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.Epictetus
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
“Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.”
— THEOPHRASTUS
Greek philosopher and botanist · 371 BC – 287 BC
Theophrastus was a Greek philosopher who succeeded Aristotle as head of the Lyceum in Athens. Known as the father of botany for his works on plants, he also wrote Characters, a set of sketches of moral types that influenced later literature.
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