Thales

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Thales (ca. 624 BC–ca. 546 BC) was a Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.

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• Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
  • As quoted in Diogenes Laërtius, The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, I, 36

• Strongest is Necessity because it governs all things.
  • As quoted in Symbolism of the Sphere : A Contribution to the History of Earlier Greek Philosophy (1977), by Otto Brendel p. 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.

External links

• Thales of Miletus from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Thales of Miletus from the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive
• Livius, Thales of Miletus by Jona Lendering
• Thales profile
• Thales' Theorem - Math Open Reference
• Thales biography by Charlene Douglass