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...azor to the midwife, and she her swadling-cloaths to the barber. Accordingly Thales Milesius (who like the rest of his countrymen, borrow d his learni...

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...t that brought out of Ionia the scattered works of Homer, and sent the poet Thales from Crete to prepare and mollify the Spartan surliness with his ...

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...most renowned for their learning all their wisdom in state matters was one Thales, whom Lycurgus, by importunities and assurances of friendship, persu... ...ited in a com- mon admiration of virtue. So that it may truly be said that Thales prepared the way for the discipline introduced by Lycurgus. From Cre... ...to whom the Gauls near the Rhine were much attached. Some report also that Thales and Hippocrates the mathematician traded; and that Plato defrayed th... ...alone. 135 Plutarch’s Lives And, indeed, it is probable that at that time Thales alone had raised philosophy above mere practice into speculation; an... ...- ing to present it to the wisest man; and first it was sent to Miletus to Thales, the Coans freely presenting him with that for which they fought aga... ...h that for which they fought against the whole body of the Milesians; but, Thales declaring Bias the wiser person, it was sent to him; from him to ano... ...sent to him; from him to another; and so, going round them all, it came to Thales a second time; and, at last, being carried from Miletus to Thebes, w... ...phrastus writes that it was first presented to Bias at Priene; and next to Thales at Miletus, and so through all it returned to Bias, and was afterwar... ...Bathycles had left. It is stated, that Anacharsis and Solon, and Solon and Thales, were familiarly acquainted, and some have delivered parts of their ...

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...ed the one and the other betwixt plea- sure and pain. It was I that taught Thales, the most eminent of your sages, that to live and to die were indiff... ... that Empedocles refused the royalty that the Agrigentines offered to him. Thales, once inveigh- ing in discourse against the pains and care men put t... ... their industry, have raked so much together.— [Diogenes Laertius, Life of Thales, i. 26; Cicero, De Divin., i. 49.]—That which Aristotle reports of s... ...st active and flourishing age in the world’s service, after the example of Thales. We have lived enough for others; let us at least live out the small... ...e others, think it as great a benefit to be without them. And when you ask Thales why he does not marry, he tells you, because he has no mind to leave...

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...of a prince, to be secret, if a man be not a liar to boot. If he who asked Thales the Milesian whether he ought solemnly to deny that he had committed... ...ought not to do it; for I look upon lying as a worse fault than the other. Thales advised him quite contrary, bidding him swear to shield the greater ... ...ss; [Montaigne’s memory here serves him ill, for the question being put to Thales, his answer was: “But is not perjury worse than adultery?”—Diogenes ... ...ft to the Amazonian licence: Alexander marching his army through Hyrcania, Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons, came with three hundred light horse of he...

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..., of learning and of learned men. He met at the court of Croesus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is related so to have pleased his royal mast...

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...urious habits. For it is well known that he himself gladly kept Terpander, Thales, and 395 Plutarch’s Lives Pherecycles, though they were strangers, ...

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...seful to those who make a point of getting money, as in the contrivance of Thales the Milesian (which was certainly a gainful one, but as it was his i... ...they chose it, but that that was not what they aimed at; in this manner is Thales said to have shown his wisdom. It indeed is, as we have said, gener-... ...ans for getting money inconsis- tent with his affairs. This man’s view and Thales’s was exactly the same; both of them contrived to procure a monopoly... ...here he continued some time to learn the prophetic art: and they say, that Thales was his companion; and that Lycurgus and Zaleucus were the scholars ... ...les was his companion; and that Lycurgus and Zaleucus were the scholars of Thales, and Charondas of Zaleucus; but those who advance this, advance what... ... censured, 54; spent much time at Crete, 57; supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64 Lysander wanted to abolish the kingly power in Sparta, 143 Magis... ...mperance in a man different from a woman, 74 Temples, how to be built, 223 Thales, his contrivance to get money, 21; supposed to be the companion of ... ...cus, legislator of the Western Locrians, 64; supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64 To Return to the Electronic Classics Series page, go to http://w...

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...e things which are most precious in their nature. Accordingly, Anexagoras, Thales, and men of that stamp, people call Scientific, but not Practi- call...

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...and-fifty, and condemns their offspring as unwor- thy of aliment and life. Thales gave the truest limits, who, young and being importuned by his mothe...

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... mother country The schools of the two oldest Greek philosophers, those of Thales and Pythagoras, were established, it is remarkable, not in ancient G...