"Water is the first principle of everything."

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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.”

“Thales of Miletus from The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy”

“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 was to the stick as the shadow of the pyramid to the shadow of the stick.”

“Do not ask who started it. Finish it”

“Livius, Thales of Miletus by Jona Lendering”

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"The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists."

— Pierre Stephen Robert Payne

Literature1911–1983

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"He used to reason as follows: 'Everything belongs to the gods; the wise are friends of the gods; friends hold all things in common; ergo, everything belongs to the wise.'"

— Diogenes of Sinope

Philosophy-399–-322

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"It is not given to a cylinder to move everywhere by its own motion, nor yet to water nor to fire nor to anything else which is governed by nature or an irrational soul, for the things which check them…"

— Marcus Aurelius

Philosophy

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".I have done well to come here first of all that by seeing the actual truth about the life of the various madmen and lunatics in this menagerie I am losing the vague dread, the fear of the thing."

— Vincent van Gogh

Art1853–1890

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