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• Thales said there was no difference between life and death.
  Why, then," said some one to him, "do not you die?...
• When Thales was asked what was difficult, he said, "To know one's self.
  And what was easy, "To advise another." -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, ix...
• The apophthegm "Know thyself" is his. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, xiii
• He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge
  and one only evil, namely, ignorance. -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Socrates, xiv...
• Do not speak ill of the dead. -- The Seven Sages (Bias, Chilon, Cleobulus, Periander, Pittacus,Solon, Thales) c.
  650 - c. 550 BC -- From Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, bk....
• Alcaeus mentions Aristodemus in these lines:-- 'T is money makes the ma
  and he who 's none Is counted neither good nor honourable....
• He said that men ought to remember those friends who were absent as well as those who were present.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Thales, ix...
• One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Pittacus, iv...
• One of the sophisms of Chrysippus was, "If you have not lost a thing, you have it.
  -- Diogenes Laertius (c. 200 AD) -- Chrysippus, xi...