To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.
Art takes nature as its model.
Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.
All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.
No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions