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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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Nothing is more ancient than God, for He was never created; nothing more beautiful than the world, it is the work of that same God; nothing is more active than thought, for it flies over the whole universe; nothing is stronger than necessity, for all must submit to it.

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

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

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Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

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

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The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

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

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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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Born: 624 BC

Died: 546 BC (aged 78)

Bio: Thales of Miletus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, mathematician and astronomer from Miletus in Asia Minor, current day Milet in Turkey and one of the Seven Sages of Greece.

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