Thales was asked what was most difficult to man he answered: "To know one's self."

Diogenes
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  1. Calumny is only the noise of madmen.

  2. The only good is knowledge and the only evil ignorance.

  3. Of a rich man who was mean and niggardly he said "That man does hot possess his estate but his estate possesses him."

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  5. The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

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