29 January 2023

Week 2023-4: Thales of Miletus - Collected Quotes

"A multitude of words is no proof of a prudent mind." (Thales of Miletus)

"All things are from water and all things are resolved into water." (Thales of Miletus)

"Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing." (Thales of Miletus)

"Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still." (Thales of Miletus)

"Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it." (Thales of Miletus)

"Place is the greatest thing, as it contains all things." (Thales of Miletus)

"The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself." (Thales of Miletus)

"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." (Thales of Miletus)

"What is the sagest of all? It is a time, because it opens all." (Thales of Miletus)




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