Quotes from Thales

What man is happy? He who has a healthy body, a resourceful mind, and a docile nature.

[One] who is healthy in body, resourceful in soul and of a readily teachable nature.

Who is happy? This is a person, who has a healthy body, is dowered with peace of mind and cultivates his talents.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

Hope is the most universal of human possessions.

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

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

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 mine.

Suretyship (Dogma) is the precursor of ruin.

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

Take Time by the forelock.

God is the most ancient of all things, for he had no birth.

Intellect is the swiftest of things, for it runs through everything.

Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.

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.

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

The past is certain, the future obscure.

Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it.

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.

The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.

If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail.

I did not become a father because I am fond of children.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air