Thales Quotes

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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
• Time is the wisest of all things that are; for it brings everything to light.
• Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.
• Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.
• The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.
• All things are from water and all things are resolved into water.
• Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.
• Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things.
• The past is certain, the future obscure.
• Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
• 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…
• What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.
• As brightness is to rustiness, so labor excelleth idleness.
• Hope is the most universal of human possessions.
• 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…
• [One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.
• 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;…

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