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"It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend."
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"Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time."

"Today and now I hate this words they sound horrible, sound powerful and you just get more older and more older. I just said them when I was 9, now I'm 16 soon I will be 17. And again I use them "now" and "today" you can also say "no" but it's now 18:07 after five blinks with the eyes it just becomes 18:08, I hate today. Everyone uses it, but it's for two different places I also use today, for me is 4.10.2016, but for you this is past, and your today is 4.10.2026..."

"For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible."

"Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them."
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"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."

"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."
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"Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music."

"The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust."

"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."

"I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give."

"Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one."
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