Thales Quotes

• The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

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  Life, Development, Personal Growth

  "Many Thoughts of Many Minds". Book by Henry Southgate, p. 338, 1862.

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• Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

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  Good Life, Blame, Doing Good

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by by Diogenes Laërtius, Iː36, 1925.

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• What is it that is most beautiful? - The Universe; for it is the work of God. What is most powerful? - Necessity; because it triumphs over all things. What is most difficult? - To know one's self. What is most easy? - To give advice. What method must we take to lead a good life? - To do nothing we would condemn in others. What is necessary to happiness? - A sound body and a contented mind.

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  Beautiful, Powerful, Good Life

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• The past is certain, the future obscure.

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  Past, Obscure, Certain

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• Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.

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  Good Life, Light, All Things

  "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, I, 35, 1925.

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• Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

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  Peace, Healthy, Mind

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• All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.

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  Science, Water, Creation

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• Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

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  Thinking, Stronger, Submit

  "Business Management Controls: A Guide". P. 55. Book by John Kyriazoglou, 2012.

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• Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

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  Wise, Men, Needs

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• A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.

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  Mind, Prudent, Proof

  "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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• We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air

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  Ocean, Future, Reality

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• Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

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  Philosophy, Men, Common

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• If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

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  Justice, Environmental, May

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• What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.

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  Health, Men, Mind

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• Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

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  Possession, Humans, Universal

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• There are three attributes for which I am grateful to Fortune: that I was born, first, human and not animal; second, man and not woman; and third, Greek and not barbarian.

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  Grateful, Animal, Men

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• I did not become a father because I am fond of children.

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  Children, Father

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• Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

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  Good Life, Ruins, Dogma

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• Take Time by the forelock.

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  Take Time

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• Conceal thy domestic ills.

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  Secrecy

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• As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.

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  Brightness, Labor, Idleness

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• Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.

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  All Things

  "he Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". I, 35. Book by Diogenes Laërtius,

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• Placing your stick at the end of the shadow of the pyramid, you made by the sun's rays two triangles, and so proved that the pyramid [height] was to the stick [height] as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.

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  Two, Pyramids, Shadow

  "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics". Book by W. W. Rouse Ball, 1893.

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• I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.

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  Math, Science, Discovery

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• [One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.

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  Healthy, Soul, Body

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