THALES

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One of the Seven Sages of Ancient Greece. He became rich by trading salt, he traveled to Egypt, from which he introduced the use of the so-called Egyptian fractions, i.e. those having numerator one, to the homeland. He measured the height of the great Egyptian pyramids from their shadow and determined the causes of the annual floods of the Nile. He discovered the attraction of light bodies by electricity. He predicted the solar eclipse of May 28, 585 BC. and is considered the founder of Theoretical Geometry. He took water as the beginning of "everything".

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1. KNOW THYSELF
2. THE STRONGEST IS NEED BECAUSE IT DOMINATES ALL
3. THE WISEST IS TIME BECAUSE IT DISCOVERS EVERYTHING
4. THE FASTEST IS MIND BECAUSE IT GOES EVERYWHERE
5. THE BIGGEST IS SPACE BECAUSE IT CONTAINS EVERYTHING
6. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IS THE COSMOS BECAUSE IT IS THE WORK OF GOD
7. THE MOST ANCIENT IS GOD BECAUSE HE IS UNBORN
8. THE HARDEST THING IS TO KNOW YOURSELF
9. THE EASIEST THING IS TO GIVE ADVICE TO OTHERS
10. THE MOST PLEASURABLE IS SUCCESS
11. THE STRANGEST THING IS AN OLD TYRANT
12. MANY WORDS ARE NOT PROOF OF WISDOM
13. DIVINE IS THAT WHICH HAS NO BEGINNING AND END
14. HAPPY IS HE WHO HAS A HEALTHY BODY, INVENTIVE MIND, AND AN INHERENT ABILITY TOWARDS LEARNING
15. DO NOT GET DISHONESTLY RICH AND DO NOT BE INFLUENCED BY THE SLANDER AGAINST THOSE YOU TRUST
16. WHAT YOU OFFER YOUR PARENTS EXPECT TO GET FROM YOUR CHILDREN
17. IF YOU SEE YOUR ENEMIES IN A WORSE SITUATION, YOU ENDURE MISFORTUNES EASIER
18. BREAKING OATH IS NOT WORSE THAN ADULTERY
19. SEEK WISDOM
20. CHOOSE GOOD
21. SOULS ARE IMMORTAL