Thales

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

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

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

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

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

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

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