Thales
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Thales (ca. 624 BC–ca. 546 BC), Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.
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- Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
- Diogenes Laërtius, "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers", I,36
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- A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind.
- The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
- Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
- (A happy man is defined as one) Who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.
- Time is the wisest because it discovers everything.
- Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.
- Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
- Water constituted the principle of all things.
