If your cloak was a gift, I appreciate it; if it was a loan, I'm not through with it yet.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Antisthenes used to say that envious people were devoured by their own disposition, just as iron is by rust. Envy of others comes from comparing what they have with what the envious person has, rather than the envious person realising they have more than what they could have and certainly more than some others and being grateful. It is really just an inability to get a correct perspective on their lives.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

I am called a dog because I fawn on those who give me anything, I yelp at those who refuse, and I set my teeth in rascals.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.