It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

There is nothing unequal as the equal treatment of unequals.

Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules.

Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it.

[the virtues] cannot exist without Prudence. A proof of this is that everyone, even at the present day, in defining Virtue, after saying what disposition it is [i.e. moral virtue] and specifying the things with which it is concerned, adds that it is a disposition determined by the right principle; and the right principle is the principle determined by Prudence.

For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.

To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.